A BUSY MORNING

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 March 1927, Page 1

A BUSY MORNING

FOR HAMILTON BRIGADE TWO FIRES SUBDUED (From Our Oxen Correspondent.) HAMILTON, To-day. Washing day proved disastrous at 19 Rostrevor Street, Hamilton, this morning, when a spark from a copper fire ignited some, clothes and set the shed ablaze. The fire brigade received a call at 8.30 to the residence of Mrs. J. Watson and was promptly on the scene. Some damage was done before the outbreak could be subdued. The shed was badly burned and about £IOO worth of good furniture, the contents of a three-roomed house stored within, was partially destroyed. The loss is not covered by insurance. While the brigade was still in attendance at Rostrevor Street . a column of voluminous black smoke arose from the Borough Council yards near the end of Ward Street, and the busy firemen were summoned to extinguish the flames from a burning tar boiler. They arrived with remarkable promptitude, and enlisting the aid of dozens of good shovel men succeeded in overcoming the fire in the midst of acrid fumes from t 1 '*' ing tar. Two other boilers which caught alight were extinyu. ...* u wuu less trouble.