SERIOUS FIRE IN HASTINGS
Press Association. NAPIER ; last night. One of the most serious fires which has taken place in Hastings for some time broke out about 8 o’clock this evening. The fire broke out in Messrs. Maddison and Co’s, store. There was a slight wind blowing, and the water supply at first was poor, which enabled the fire to get a good hold. The large building occupied by Messrs. Maddison and Co., Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Paterson, Mossman, and Co., commission agents, and J. J. Faulkner, dentist, who have olfices upstairs, was totally destroyed, with the exception of the seed-dress-ing department of Williams and Kettle’s. The fire spread to the Bank of New Zealand, and this too was destroyed, while f>. Bone’s cafe and E. H. Leigh's, chemist, wore gutted. The strong rooms at both the bank and Williams and Kettle’s are intact. The fire has how been got under.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2080, 15 May 1907, Page 3
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