IRREPARABLE LOSS
l'Oux Own Correspondent.)
Valuable Furniture ia Hatuma 1 Fire
(From
WAIPUKURAU, This Day. . A valuable and irreplaceable collection of antique furniture and New Zealand and SSouth Sea Island curios, together with a number of books of great historical interest, shared tho fate.of-Mr J. O. Wilson residence at Hatuma, when ' it was completely destroyed by fire in the early-ho'urs of, yeeterday morning. All that . now rernains of a collection that took many years to accumulate is a metal box containing some" books that had. been stored in an outbuilding during recent .alterations to the house. • • ' The furniture . included many pieces of valuable mahogany. and a highlyprized blackwood china cabinet, the value of which a dealer had estimated ' to be ,at least £400. , Th'e • contents of the house were insured : for . £995, with the Alliance, Assurance . Co. A policy for £800, covering the house, and another for £85 on a dairy which was aleo destroyed, .weie hel.d .by the same company, .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 8
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161IRREPARABLE LOSS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 8
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