FIRE IN SALE STREET.
The firebell rang out an alarm last night at 1 i .10 o’clock. A bright glare y.i the sky at once showed the locant> i f the outbreak, which proved to be an old lip occupied four-romned cottage in Sale Street, the property cl Mr 0> J. Nightingale. r llio flames bad a good hold when discovered, ami •the building was gi# jib'd botoro th-e I-ire Brigade were able to get at work. The Brigade mustered promptly and in full force, every available man bedng present. The buildug lr.ut been unoccupied for soma three years, sad was in course of dismantlement, containing wily a few articles cl lurn. I,lire, which were destroyed. '1 hero was no insurance; The outbreak appears to be another ol those \vantdn affairs that some two or three years eg')-wore somewhat irequent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1917, Page 4
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