AUCKLAND NEWS.
A REMARKABLE FIRE
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last nigh
Last, night, tile llunlly piunpingsiieci at tnc railway-station was totally destroyed by lire. Requiring benzine for tne oii-engino; the pumper proceeded to open a new tin. When lie was making the necessary holes, some of the fluid spurted up, and, coining in contact with the light) he, field in his hand, ignited, some of the burning oil (which fell on iiis hand) burning pt. so'.severely rf that lie dropped the light on the tin. Soon the whole of tne benzine was in a blaze. 'File shed, oil-engine, and the boiler of the donkey-engine were totally destroyed. h.,e diuiiage is estimated at between £2(10 and £3OO.
RAILWAY LEAGUE. A meeting of the North Island Main Trunk Railway League was held to-day. Mr Fowlds, LVl.il.R., gave an address on railway matters, following on his visit to railway works in the South Island, contending that, Auckland had not received a fair share of railway expenditure. Resolutions were passed urging a vote of £100,900 in the coming session for the railway north of Auckland, and repeating the League’s invitation to the Premier to visit the North Auckland line.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 844, 19 March 1903, Page 2
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