TRENTHAM FIRE
4t» t ßy Telegraph—Per press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. H. Brown’s stables and storerooms at Bristol Street, Trentham, were totally destroyed by lire. The stable? were fortunately empty at the time, as Brown was away at the Wanganui meeting with his two horses, but the storerooms contained the tools and gear used by Brown in bis business as a builder. One of his carpenters lost a motor cycle valued at £<s, am, a full kit of tools. An effort was made to fight the fire be'rore it gamed full control, and water was brought from the main on the high rood but the file was up a side street 150 yards from the main and the only hose available was old and full of boles, with the consequence that not a great deal of water actually reached the fire by this moans. The buildings were totally destroyed with their contents.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1930, Page 5
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152TRENTHAM FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1930, Page 5
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