Southern Store Fire Causes £13,000 Loss
COMPLETE DESTRUCTION SALVAGE IMPOSSIBLE Press Association BLENHEIM, Today. A disastrous fire involving a total loss of about £ 13,C«>0 broke out in A. M. Corry and Co.’s store at Spring Creek last night. The buildings and fittings were valued at £3,000 and the stocks it contained were worth about £IO,OOO. rpiIERE were no fire fighting facilities available and it was impossible to attempt to salvae anything, the heat being so great. At the height of the fire the building presented an awe-inspiring spectacle. - The building was leased by Corry and Co. from Robertson and Mills and was used principally as a grain store. It was Insured for £I,BOO In the Northern Office and there was £2OO in the same office on the seed-cleaning plant. The store contained 8,000 sacks of chaff, 3,500 to 4,000 sacks of barley, and about 1,500 sacks of seed peas as well as general merchandise, covered by insurances totalling £7,500 in the Commercial Union Office.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 1
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