FIRE AT PAEROA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5512, 11 December 1929, Page 2

FIRE AT PAEROA.

BLAZE IN GARAGE. TWO SERVICE CARS BURNED. Two of the Waihi-Paeroa Transport Co.’s twelve-passenger Cadillac motorcars, used on the Auckland service run, were very badly damaged by fire in the company’s ggrage, Paeroa, at 2 a.m. yesterday. A telephone exchange attendant, Mr C. Hayward, who was going on duty at that hour, noticed sparks rising through a skylight and gave the alarm.

The Paeroa Fire Brigade turned out with its customary promptness and soon had a hose playing on the seat of the conflagration with such good effect that the fire was confined to the insides of the two cars and did not reach the benzine tanks. The rafters above the cars were badly charred and the glass in the skylights was broken, but otherwise no damage was done to the garage or to the other cars stored therein. The two cars were standing very close together, and in neither case was the engine or under-carriage damaged. Onq car had recently beep overhauled in preparation for the Christmas holiday rush, and on the day before the fire had not been used other than to be moved to a position where it would be handy for a quick call. The other car was about to bb overhauled. Both vehicles, which when new had cost £1450 each, were insured for £5OO in the State Fire Office. Mr E. S. Thpihas, manager of the company, was away on holiday at the time.