BIG FIRE AT REEFTON.
HOTELS AND SHOPS DBS- * TROYED. Reefton, February 2. The most disastrous fire in the history of Reefton broke out at 2.30 this morning, when the premises' of Stevenson’s Hotel, owned and. occupied by Fred Keating, W. J. Morris (draper), W. J. Duff (chemist), Miss Sullivan (fruiterer), owned by T. H. Lee, City Hotel (owned and occupied by B. P. McMahon), F. Bonifacio (plumber), J. W. 'Chalks, and Bourke’s Hotel (P. Sullivan), and a building owned by E. Williams, on the opposite side of Broadway, were destroyed.
The heat was intense, and everything was dry like tinder. The buildings at the rear and the stables at the rear of Stevenson’s and the City hotels were”destroyed. The inmates mostly got out only in thennight clothes. 'Patterson’s grocery and Prentice’s drapery warehouses were alight several times, and were only saved after serenuous work by the brigade. The outbreak is supposed to have originated at Morris’ place.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3750, 4 February 1928, Page 3
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157BIG FIRE AT REEFTON. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3750, 4 February 1928, Page 3
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