FIRE AT GREY.
ON VICTORIA PARK
TROTTING CLUB’S NEW STAND
FURTHER I’ARTICT'LARS
Fuither particulars of the lire at the Trotting Club’s grandstand show when the alarm was given the Brigade turned out; hut for some reason mistook the location, and it was some minutes before they arrived on the scene with the motor engine and hand reel; and b.v this time the whole of the upper part, of the stand was a raging inferno. A lead of hose was brought from the main in Boundary street, but the pressure was totally inadequate, the water almost trickling from the nozzle. I he steam engine was then utilised to pump water from the lagoon,
The heat was intense, and the spectators were unable to approach w'.Hiin fifty yards of the burning building even 011 (he windward side, wlii'a He fence surrounding the birdcage was induced to ashes, and the figure bumd between the new and old stands was also burnt. Sheets of red hot roofing iron were torn from the rafters anil crashed down on (he lawn, setting fire to Ibo while the iron support-? rouhl be seen, rod hot, and ,;*vaying ominously in the blaze. The whole of the interior fittings of the stal'd were of oiled rimu. and provided tin-der-like fuel for th(> flames. Den ;c volumes of black smoke belched cut from under the eaves to the aceomp uiiment of the crash of shattering glass. At 1.10 p.in., the roof of the stand collapsed and the flames soared s' anls, hut the (ire showed signs of dying down from lack of fuel, and Ihe effects of the water poured on to it from five leads of hose. The origin of the outbreak is a iny--lery. The situation of the sest of the lire was in a disused space whir? ran the full length of the .stand and in which was stored a • .lant'ty of dress-
ed timber which had been left over from the erection of the stand. There had. as far as is known, been no one in this space since before the A. and P. Shim last month. The stand was creeled in 1020 at a cost of 313.000. and was insured for £B,OOO. The contents were valued at over .3100, and there was £17)0 insurance thereon.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1926, Page 3
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380FIRE AT GREY. Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1926, Page 3
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