A DISASTROUS FIRE.
A MYSTERIOUS OUTBREAK
(Pint PKESU ASSOCIATION.—COPYBIGHT.J
Gore, May 26.
A disastrous fire occurred at Gore at five o’clock this morning which destroyed practically all Holland’s two storev block lathe-Main Street.
The following shops v were destroyed:—Hamilton (jeweller), Harliwick (fruiterer), Forbes (bookseller), Calder (draper), Edgar Walt (draper), also Miss Barclay (dressmaker) the Gore Returned Soldiers’ Club Rooms, Mrs Henderson’s rooms and private apartments, and the drapery stocks of McGruer and Taylor.
The insurances are :—Holland’s buildings. £8,000; stocks of tenants: Calder £I,OOO, Hamilton £1,600, Watt£l,ooo, Forbes £6OO, McGruer and Taylor £3,569.
Harliwick, Henderson, Barclay and the Soldiers’ Club were not insured.. The insurance companies affected are the New Zealand, Natioual, Guardian, Standard Norwich Union and Commercial Union.
J. T. Holland’s premises were damaged by water. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Mrs S. Henderson was awakened by smoke at an early hour and found the passage full of smoke. The big fire was fought in a fierce gale by the volunteer brigade who did excellent work.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1918, Page 4
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170A DISASTROUS FIRE. Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1918, Page 4
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