Disastrous Blaze at Mangamutu
POST OFFICE DESTROYED FOUR BUILDINGS SWEPT AWAY Press Association. PAH lATU A, To-day. A disastrous fire at Mangamutu yesterday afternoon destroyed a box factory, two cottages and the Mangamutu Post Office. The outbreak started in the factory, which with contents was totally destroyed. Helpers managed to rescue all the contents from the cottages. as well as the mails and safe, etc., from the Post Office before they were razed to the ground. There was no water available. All the buildings were owned by D. Fraser.
Full particulars in regard to insurance are not available, but the following are known to be insured in the New Zealand Insurance Office: Box factory and part of the machines, for £495; five-roomed cottage, for £240; four-roomed cottage, for £220; and Post Office of two rooms, for £IOO.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 255, 18 January 1928, Page 9
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