FIVE MOTOR CARS BURNT
GARAGE GOES Up IN SMOKE. DISASTROUS FIRE AT PO2\GAROA. A disastrous lire oecurcd at Pougaroa 011 baturday nigkt, by which a guiuge and uye motor cars were destroyed. li appears that a meeting was being Held ui the township", at wuieh i\ nunxUer 01 residents i'roiu the surrounding towns and country "ere present.
A number ol cars were pnrKeit in one of the garages—llie name ol which was not ascertainable —and during tbc evening the lire broke out. Before anything could be done live ears were enveloped ill flames, and with the garage,
ivere completely destroyed. rue heaviest loser "as Air Kolston, mail contractor, who lost both his ears, one oi' them a Cadillac. A third car belonged to Air Liverlou, a well-known farmer of the Waihoki Valley, -\vliilc a ! ibuith belonged to a resident of Eketahuna. Car number live has not so far j been identilied. : Air Kolston is u heavy, loser, as he I had no insurance on either of his ears. . It is not known whether the others , were covered.
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Otaki Mail, 15 January 1923, Page 3
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