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FARMSTEAD DESTROYED. A residence, owned and occupied by Mr J. Murdock art, Hikutaia, was totally destroyed by fire at 5 p.m. on Monday. The owner was away and the family all in the milking-shed. Before the alarm was given the flames had secured so great a held, that it was impossible to cope with them. The family lost valuable jewellery and were pnly left with their working clothes. A farm hand, A. Greenwood* residing with . the Murdocks, lost all his effects, and also £5O in notes. The insurances are not avail- 4 able, owing, to the owners absence,! but he is likely to be a very heavy locer.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4594, 29 August 1923, Page 2
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110BLAZE AT Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4594, 29 August 1923, Page 2
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