A GREAT BLAZE
-MANY OARS BURNT. (BU Telegraph—Ter Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 15. Bursting oil tanks and great whirling flames that shot one hundred feet into the air, capped by mountains of smoke, formed a beacon which could be seen as far as Lower Hut-t Valley, when Maoriland Motors Ltd, business premises took fire shortly after midnight. The huge building stretching the whole distance between Lloyd and Nelson streets, in which ninny motor cars were stored was swept by flames, between twenty and thirty cars being completely destroyed. At 12.40 a detachment from the warships in port arrived, but- by that time the Brigade had the conflagration well in hand and within an hour and a-lialf the blaze had been extinguished.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1931, Page 5
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