FIRE AT OTAHUHU
PASSENGER BUS ABLAZE TELEPHONE WIRES DAMAGED While the tank of a passenger bus owned by the Passenger Transport Company was being filled with benzine at the petrol pump in front of the company’s garage, Great South Road, Otahuhu, at 12.20 a.m. on Sunday, it burst into flames. The cab and front portion of the bus were considerably damaged, and the flames spread to the verandah of the garage, and brought down a number' of telephone wires. Determined efforts were made to quell the flames with patent extinguishers, but without success. The Otahuhu Fire Brigade was then called, and was successful in extinguishing the blaze.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 16
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107FIRE AT OTAHUHU Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 16
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