A GREAT FIRE.
89 STEAM FIRE ENGINES AND 300 FIREMEN EMPLOYED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 22.
A fire occurred this morniug, recalling the great fire in Jewin’s street a few years ago. The fire gutted three warehouses on tho south side and two on the north side of the Australian Avenue, and both sides of the New Zealand Avenue m Barbicane.
Thirty-nine steam firo engines, and three hundred firemen were omployed in extinguishing the flames. There were no fatalities.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 397, 23 April 1902, Page 2
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