DOMINION news.
(Per Press Association.) / Wairoa, March 28. A disastrous fire occurred in the Marine Parade at 12.55 this morning. CorkilTs new two-storey building, occupied as Borough Council Chambers. T. Bax (fruiterer and auctioneer, a cottage at the rear owned by Corkill and occupied by McKenzie and Wilkins’ bicycle depot (owned by J. Powdrell) were all burned to the ground. The fire started in Bax’s office. There were no fire-fighting appliances. The fire burned fiercely and soon attacked the cottage at the rear, then Wilkins’. The conflagration was stopped by the break wall at tiie Bank of New Zealand and on the other side by a ferro-concreto building. The Borough Council lose all records and winners at the late A. and P. Show’ ’£lso worth of prizes, pihe insurances totgl a thousand, pods The insurances total £IOOO.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 78, 28 March 1912, Page 6
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137DOMINION news. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 78, 28 March 1912, Page 6
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