DISASTROUS FIRE.
AT WESTFIELD WORKS. LOSS ESTIMATED AT £25,000. Auckland, Yesterday. The bag room at the Westfield Freezing Company’s Works, Westfield, was destroyed by fire last evening. The loss is estimated at approximately £25,000. A shipment of hessian, landed from Calcutta late in the week, had swelled the stocks usually held in the building to particularly large proportions, valued at many thousands of pounds. Valuable machinery, together with the whole of the finished and unfinished stocks, was destroyed by fire tbe origin of which is unknown. It could not have occurred at a worse lime, as tbe works are now at their busiest, at the height of the season’s killing. Tbe destroyed machine room has been supplying owners of other works at Gisborne and Te Moann. The insurances are not available.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2836, 20 January 1925, Page 4
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131DISASTROUS FIRE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2836, 20 January 1925, Page 4
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