FIRE AT PICTON
XPes Press SEssoclation.)' A _ . Picton, Saturday. A. destructive fire occurred early this morning, the principal block in High street being totally destroyed. The fire \H in Girling and Co.’s drapery establishment f and spread to C. Smith’s drapery shop f | and W. Sym’s, chemist. All fche'buildings • %fp were burnt to the ground. Ho wind was vV® blowing or the Marlborough Press and s%'^ ’Webster*? (butcher) would have gone, ajr Nothing could be saved from the draper’s shops. Syms most of his chemicals. .% The insurances rrre : Girling and f the stock i£4oo i v the National, £4OO . .V 4 the Nav? Zealan- Wan the building r the New stock was-valued at £22oo.JpSiith and Co. were in- - = sured on tna fcfgpifctor £650 in the New - Zealand^ on btfrStfing, owned by Green- vi sill, £250 \ijv the New -Zealand. Si-ms 1 r' etook £2OO ; and the building, by Greenßill, £250, both in tl v ~-,‘-'^t loa i a nd. ]H Smith estimates his loss , iiSiVnnk at iw £SOO. I \\ ' ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1378, 13 February 1905, Page 2
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