MANY SMALL FIRES
OUTBREAKS AT WELLINGTON
Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. There were several fires in Wellington during the week-end, but none did any great damage. The engine on the auxiliary schooner Fairburn, lying at King’s Wharf, backfired and set the engine room alight, but the crew managed to extinguish the flames with the Harbour Board’s hose. A mo tor-lorry at Brooklyn caught fire and was badly damaged before the brigade got to it. Hot ashes from a steam heater caused a little damage to the Phoenix aerated water factory. Two small houses at Lyall Bay suffered some injury. Water had to be pumped from the sea. Insurances on the two houses total £1,400.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 12
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113MANY SMALL FIRES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 12
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