FIRE DESTROYS MAILS
COUNTRY POST OFFICE BURNED DEFECT IN CHIMNEY Press Association WELLINGTON, Sunday. The post office and store at Pahautanui was burned on Friday evening. The building was demolished in 20 minutes and nothing was saved. The money and postal orders were locked in the safe, but the mails were burned. The cause of the fire was a defective chimney. The insurances total under £. 1,000 all told. The owner of the store and postmaster, Mr. S. Gough, had been there only four months. He is a considerable loser.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 33, 2 May 1927, Page 12
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89FIRE DESTROYS MAILS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 33, 2 May 1927, Page 12
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