YESTERDAY'S FIRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S FIRE

ROTORUA SHOP PREMISES ■ ALMOST COMPLETELY Sj GUTTED. S Considerable damage was caui^B in the shop and adjoining rcfoms^B Mr. A. Wood's chemist shop, Tuta|^B kai Street, as a result of the which occui'red early yesterday ing. The rear portion of the Pre^B ises is almost completely gutted, a considerable quantity of vaka^H stock was lost. 9H The superintendent of the rua Fire Brigade (Mr. T. Anderso^B is of the opinion that a spark a small stove which was left ing, was the cause of the firfy considers that, had the skyligk{s^B hroken with the heat, an extefi^K, conflagration "Would have and that considerable would have occurred in quelhng fiames. With the exception of the of the walls with water, very apparent damage was caused t°^B] , billiard saloon at the rear Wood's premises, demonstrating excellent save effected by brigade. . The building is owned by j^Rh: E. Moore, of Auckland, and sured in the National Offlce. f°r Mr. Wood's stock and fittiaS5aBi( covered hy a policy of £1000 Mercantile and General Insuranc Ltd. Hts