DAIRY FACTORY FIRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 51, 16 March 1937, Page 2

DAIRY FACTORY FIRE

-Pres^ Association.)

No Pressure-Water Available SOUTH TARANAKI BLAZE

fBy Telegraph-

[ new" PLYMOUTH, Last Night. ! The T, L. Joll main dairy factory at iOkaiawa, one of the Iargest factories in. (South Taranaki, was destroyed by fire jthis afternoon, It is estimated it. wiil icost £11,000 to replace the building and ■plant. The eompany's ioss above in* surance is believed to be about £3009 to; £4000. The fixe is believed to have originat* 'ed in the boiler house next "to the'- ■ i waxing room in which it -was first diSi IcOvered. No pressure water supply was? - [available but a bucket brigade set toi work and at one stage seemed tO" have ithe blaze beaten, but a strong breez© 'fanned the fire which soon began to [spread again. In a short time the fire Ihad reached the main building which jsoon became a mass of fiames and in ithreo hours the whole building was rejduced to ruins and the valuable plant [destroyed. Twelve hundred cheeses stored in the icuring room were also burned. The jcheese was c.overed by insuran.ee by !the Dairy Board and the company should not suffer loss tliort. Fifty-three suppliers are affected and . ' arrangements have been made for them ito supply milk to the eompany's braneh factories. The main building was erect- ; ed in 1922 and fairly costly renovations I were made two years ago.