MILLION UP IN SMOKE.
GREAT AUSTRALIAN FIRES.
TWO MILLS IN VICTORIA. ADELAIDE, February 25. A tremendous fire broke out at the Glanville works of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, where .there was: a stock of raw sugar amounting to 15,000 tons. It is estimated that sugar to the value of £7'50,000 was destroyed. The damage to the building and plant is estimated at. £lOO,OOO. MELBOURNE, February 25. Damage in excess of £250,00'0 was done by fire, which completely gutted the flour milling establishment of John Darling and Sons, at Albion, a railway (suburb on the main line. From the outset the Fire Brigade ha l d little chance of saving the mills owing to the extremely poor water pressure.
A soldiers’ settlement in the vicinity of the mills narrowly escaped destruction.
Large stocks of grain and flour were also destroyed. The mills were claimed to be the most modern in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4944, 26 February 1926, Page 3
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153MILLION UP IN SMOKE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4944, 26 February 1926, Page 3
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