FIRE AT PATETONGA.
FINE COWSHED BURNED. MR. J. F. MAYN’S LOSS. A fine cowshed, the best in the Patetonga district, together with an engine, four-cow milking plant, separator, and a quantity of grass seed, was destroyed by fire some time on Monday night, Mr J. F. Mayn being the unfortunate loser. The origin of the fire is a mystery, and the loss was not covered by insurance. Mr Mayn did not milk on Monday evening, and was perplexed to find his shed, when driving up his herd of cows, in a thick fog on Tuesday morning. It was then a mass of twisted iron, and among the ruins was the dead body of a pig that was in the habit of sleeping in the shed. Roadmen living just over the road did not know of the fire, but it is established that the shed was standing early in the evening.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5415, 24 April 1929, Page 3
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150FIRE AT PATETONGA. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5415, 24 April 1929, Page 3
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