GARAGE AFIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 1

GARAGE AFIRE

GOOD SAVE EFFECTED MANY CARS ENDANGERED OUTBREAK IN ALBERT STREET ABOUT £20,000 worth of A motor-cars and accessories were endangered by a fire which suddenly licked up the back stairs in the premises of Rushton’s Motor Sales, Ltd., Albert Street, near Wyndham Street, at 11 o’clock to-day. JHE flames sprang from a tool cupboard in which was also kept a small quantity of lubricating oil, and the wooden staircase and some of the beams of the second floor were soon ablaze. Luckily, the nearest motorcar was 20 feet away. Two mechanics were mending a car at the back of the premises and Mr. W. J. Rushton was in the office at the front, so that no one noticed the outbreak for about 10 minutes. It was fortunate that one of the mechanics came in to get a spanner and found the place on fire. The City Brigade answered the call promptly and put the Are out with extinguishers. The staircase and some beams were charred and tools were destroyed. “No benzine was kept in the cupboard and I cannot understand what caused the Are,” said Mr. W. J. Rushton. The two-storey brick building »as valued at £15,000 and it contained £20.000 worth of cars and accessories. He estimated that about £IOO worth of tools had been destroyed.