WELLINGTON FIRE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1920, 1 November 1906, Page 3

WELLINGTON FIRE

THE KNQUIItY. I'UUSS ASSOCIATION Wellington, yesterday. The enquiry into tlio Lambton ({nay lire was continued to-day. L’ntriek Bean lan, one of tlio proprietors of tho auctioneering establishment in whielt the tiro recurred, was closely examinotl as to the .■onditions of his business, and as to tho increase of insurance Iron! .IMOO to XtiUO The iusuraneo ran out on tlio 2(ith inst., and tho lire occurred on tho 22nd inst,, Witness could not produco any record to show tiie quantity ol stock, and had not a clear idea as to tho linaneial position of tho business, as tho records wore destroyed in tho lire, lie hud been an old age pensioner threo years ago, but his position had improved since, and lie had put XlOb into tho business.

Wellington, lasi night, Voluminous ovidiiiou was iaUou regardmg thu relation-, financial and OHIO wiuO, uf S!J« pjiSOll.i ffU > ijti.ll.il iiiu Wll.ii.rioo .Xuu.Ui;oori,.iy Oouitauiy, m whoao p.e* lUisias U.,: tin, OL’CIU. i-'.i. At .x A. ii-sU.u, .mis suauag.-r, a-rid ho - -3, vlSiied IiJO O; tiliiUtl bw.Wooii II oO (iUj 10 on tao dim my wDuiiig bulVra uio lire. .10 went uuio wuii hio who, Ho did not iidj any auichtß, John f.lo.rta, otherwise Schapire, said .h*t up to ;hfeo years ngu ho was «r ji.,itUi.r iu Slid hu>idoso. Hj Ici* biOaUso Dndctob, uiiur tiyuiiuil kIS, mode u very uuptupur 3U ;g:atioa to wituuea. 11a said,

•' Loi’s truck tuo phuie, mid guli a heavy imurauco uu is. li’d uu uid wooden pines, and it would not take very much to make h b!i.i;j.” AS that time there was about j£-!00 insurance on the premises, and there was about £IOO worth of stock there. Some of it was new furniture some of it second hand. Wit ness went on to say that on September 2Stli ho visited the shop with a Mr A. nssclmer, of Christchurch, to look over the place as he .heard the business was for sale, They had a good look at the stock, as that was the object of tneir -|sit. lie knew a

good deal about lumiiiuc, and was a furnisher of houses, lie would not gir o more than LIUO lor the lot.

Inspector Ellison; Then you would not give IjSOO for the stock Witness (hi astonishment); LSOO ? INoverl Where was the L8l)U ? It was not there. I say most emphatically I would not give LIUO for it Joseph Brown, who was employed as storeman at Wellington Auctioneering Company’s premises for about threo years, said there was .a lair stock in the shop on the Saturday before the lire. He would value it at about L I JOU.