FURTHER FIRES
_o. OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN. [By. T elegrapb, Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 10. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-oper-ative Stores at Oxford were destroyed by,,''re early this morning. Incendiarism is suspected. The storks were worth £7,000. About five o'clock, neighbours were awn bored by an explosion of cartridges in the .hardware department. They went out to find the whole building ablaze.
Many .residents soon gathered near the building, but the fire had got a good .hold. ,By knocking down part of the wall in the oil and iron shed, a store at the back, and some shops >v©re saved. -
The building destroyed was a large one, made off wood, with an iron roof..
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 6
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114FURTHER FIRES Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 6
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