BIG BLAZE AT GISBORNE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2975, 15 December 1925, Page 3

BIG BLAZE AT GISBORNE.

FIVE CARS GO UP IN SMOKE,

Gisborne, December 13. Shortly before midnight on Saturday flames were seen issuing from a wooden building in Peel street, near the centre of the town and before the fire was quelled two shops and two workshops (were gutted. Two more shops were badly damaged and five motor ears destroyed. The building was two-storeyed, the top being used by Mellor Bros., coach painters and body builders, as a paint room and in it were five ears undergoing renovation. The blaze was very spectacular. Good work by the brigade saved the adjoining British Empire hotel. The outbreak appeared to originate on the floor of the paint room or ceiling of the shop, near the centre of the building. The whole was soon a seething inferno. The buildings destroyed were J. Thompson’s saddlery shop and workshop, W. J. Sinclair’s electrician’s shop and workshop, Mellor Bros, paint shop. A small office used bv the Duca service and occupied by F. Drube, boot maker, was badly damaged and two or three rooms on the side of the British Empire hotel were damaged by water.