Fires.
About four o’clock on Monday morning, the sound of the fire bell awoke Foxton residents, and warned them that a conflagration was in progress. The locality proved to be Brewers flaxmill, which had evidently been burning some hours when first noticed, so that help was useless. A little fibre was saved, but otherwise the mill is a total wreck. We understand no insurance was held by Mr Brewer, who is a heavy loser. Fortunately the weather was dead calm, otherwise sparks may have caused other mills in the vicinity to ignite, and there would have been no end to damage. Whether Mr Brewer will build again is not quite certain. There is no clue as to the origin.
Yesterday afternoon, at Moutoa, Messrs Hamer and Dr Bennett's scutching shed was levelled to the ground by flames, and a large amount of fibre destroyed. So far the cause of the outbreak is unknown.
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Manawatu Herald, 31 January 1905, Page 2
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153Fires. Manawatu Herald, 31 January 1905, Page 2
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