URENUI BLAZE
POST OFFICE AND STORE
By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright
NEW PYMOUTH, Alarch 7
Fire destroyed the Post Office and Fitzgerald’s general store at Urenui late last night. The desperate efforts of a bucket brigade saved Howell's boarding house next door, although the wall was scorched. The Post Office had four living rooms attached, and all were destroyed. The mail matter and the more valuable fittings, and most of the Postmaster’s furniture were rescued. The blaze originated in the store, hi eh was rapidly reduced tfo ashes. The fi!rc leaped across a right of way and soon the Post Office was burning fiercely. The store was insured for £250 and the stock for £11:00. The Postmanter’s ((Mr G. Loveridge’s) furniture was insured for £250. but the greater part of it was saved.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 6
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132URENUI BLAZE Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 6
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