BIG BLAZE IN AUCKLAND.
[by TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL TO HERALD. Auckland, Last Night. The Strand Arcade in Queen Street was totally deslr yed by fire. The Thistle Hotel was gutted. The damage is estimated at over eighty thousand pounds. Later.
One of the most destructive fires that Auckland has experienced for years occurred last night, when the handsome fourstorey building in Queen Street, belonging to Messrs Campbell, Ehenfried, and Co., and known as the Strand Arcade, was completely gutted. As the conflagration took a firmer hold despite the streams of water being poured upon it from several directions —which seemed but puny dribbles from miniature squirts in comparision to the blaze that mocked them —not only Queen Street, but the thoroughfares for miles around were illuminated by the dancing flicker of the raging fire fiend. There were several casualties, principally among the helpers, but none of a serious nature.
The damage is roughly estimated at ,£IOO,OOO. Particulars of insurance were not available tonight.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 468, 17 August 1909, Page 3
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162BIG BLAZE IN AUCKLAND. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 468, 17 August 1909, Page 3
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