DISASTROUS FIRE
EIGHT BUILDINGS BURNED AT PLIMMERTQN desperate efforts Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. About 11.30 last night fire was discovered to have a strong hold upstairs in Seaview. a boardinghouse at the seaside town of Plimmerton. Quickly the whole population was out, but there is no water supply under pressure and soon matters assumed disastrous proportions. Seaview stood in the middle qt a block of residences close together facing the sea and within an hour, besides Seaview. a shop and dwelling attached and six other residences had gone up in flames. Had it not been for an intervening road even more must have been lost. A bucket brigade did its best and at least two houses were thus saved. A light southerly to some extent fanned the flames, but it was due to the fact that the tire took that direction which helped to keep down the loss.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 920, 13 March 1930, Page 13
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148DISASTROUS FIRE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 920, 13 March 1930, Page 13
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