FIRE AT FAIRFIELD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8760, 11 March 1907, Page 2

FIRE AT FAIRFIELD.

Per Press Association. Ashburton, March D,

About 4 o’clock this morning a twostorey wooden building, of twenty-four rooms, situated at Fairfield, was totally destroyed by fire. The building, was occupied by A. Moore as a boardinghouse, and twenty men wore sleeping on the premises nt the time of tho fire. The fire made such rapid progress that many of the inmates barely escaped with their lives, and only in clothes they were sleeping in. One man. jumped from a twostorey window und badly sprained his foot. One man lost £22 in cash, another ,£l3, while others lost smaller sums. Moore, tho boardinghouse keeper, also spites ho lost in notes and gold .£7l contained in a tin box. The building, which partly belongs to Moore and the Public Trustee, was insured for £IOOO in tho name of tho Public Trustee. The furniture was insured by Moore for. £250. There is no clue to the origin of the fire.