FIRES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 20 June 1913, Page 6

FIRES.

o AT KEMPTHORNE PROSSER’S. Auckland, June 20. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co’s, extensive chemical and manure works at Westfield were destroyed by fire early this morning. The men employed on the night shift had left the works for supper for five minutes when the building was seen to be enveloped in flame#. The building included' a valuable plant and valuable stohk. Tlie cause of the fire is a niys■ill' tery. Auckland, June 20. The damage by the fire at the Seresford Street public school was betweer £II,OOO and £12,000. «un 4Hort3 i The buildings destroyed covered twe acres, arid the insurance total is £15,300, which is a total loss. The buildifngs wefC Insured in the Union As fliirhnee for £IOOO, Ocean for £IOOO * Commercial Union for £2500, Nation al for £SOO, South British for £2OOO Standard for £750, Lloyds for £3SO( New Zealand for £ISOO, and Northen Assurance for £2250.