DOMINION ITEMS.
[by TELEGRAPH —PKll PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DISASTROUS FIRES. INVERCARGILL, March 3. A fire on Sunday morning destroyed Jopp’s Royal Oak Hotel at Arrowtown, and the shops of T. Uro, tobacconist, and 11. Bruce, draper. When discovered, the fire, the cause ol which is still a mystery, had a good hold, and the brigade was powerless, all three shops being demolished in half an hour. The adjacent buildings, though ficorclted and Mistered wore saved. Luckily there was no wind, or a greater part of Jl ' , business section of the town would have been demolished. The insurances on the buildings were:—Royal Oak llolel £1,500; lire s shop £225; Bruce’s shop £550. .Topp estimates his loss at £IOOO.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19240304.2.38
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1924, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
116DOMINION ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1924, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in