CITY FIRE
OUTBREAK IN VICTORIA STREET PICTURE STOCKS DAMAGED An outbreak of fire shortly after 12 o’clock today caused extensive damage to the workshop and stock of Mr. G. E. Spooner’s picture-fram-ing business, at 31 Victoria Street Wes.t. Mr. Spooner was upstairs having lunch, when the outbreak occurred. A girl assistant was serving a customer and went into the workshop at the back to get the order. When she went back, after attending to the customer, she found the ■workshop to be on fire, flames and smoke issuing from beneath the work-bench. The brigade -was quickly summoned and arrived before the flames could get a good hold, though black clouds of smoke billowed out the front door and from the top windows of the building, ■which is two-storeyed. Mr. Spooner estimates his loss at more than £2OO. Fire and water destroyed many partly finished orders. The cause of the outbreak is thought to be due to a fusing of a wire attached to the electric motor at the work-bench. r
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 1
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170CITY FIRE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 1
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