SPECTACULAR FIRE
ESTIMATED DAMAGE £50,000
Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.): MELBOURNE, February 20
A spectacular fire gutted th e nail factory of S. Cook and Company, South Melbourne. Eight hundred gallons of fuel oil were ignited and sent flames tliig-h. in th e air, and valuable modern machinery was ruined. Th e firemen hae a difficult task preventing the, spread to adjoining timber yards. The damage is in the vicinity of £50,000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1933, Page 5
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