WASH-HOUSE ABLAZE.
commercial hotel premises. A MORNING CONFLAGRATION. Shortly after 10.30 o’clock this morning the flrebell pealed out its warning, for the, first time this year. The conflagration proved to be a wash-house situated at the rear pi the Commercial Hotel. The local volunteer fire brigade, numbering 12 members, under the guidance of Superintendent W. J. Moore was promptly on the scene with the motor-reel, and a lead of. hose wasi run out from the flreplug in Normanby Road opposite the Methodist Church. Thq interior of the building, which was insured in the South British Insurance Office, was gutted. A mangle and a quantity of clothing and bed linen were the only articles saved. It is thought that a long piece of wood which was left near the copper fireplace ignited and set the floorboards, alight.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5234, 3 February 1928, Page 2
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136WASH-HOUSE ABLAZE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5234, 3 February 1928, Page 2
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