FIRE AT GAS WORKS
Damage Doiie to Office ' Thanks to the presenee of mind of a number of children the Hastings Fire Brigade was enabled to make a good save shortly after noon to-day when fire broke out in tho office of the Napier Gas Company works in Spathampton sti'eet, Hastings. The children had just left the Central School and were on their way lioine for luneh when they espied flames through the window oi; the gas works office. Thoy iinmediately gave the alarm from the call box at the corner and the brigade were promptly on the scene. " From the appearance of the- fire it would appear that the outbreak first occurred near, or in the waste paper basket, and the flames had caught a hold on the waRs and a number of books and papers on the office desk. However, the damage generally was exceptionally light, the Water ased to quell the outbreak doinc more damage j than th« actual
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 4
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