BLAZE AT DANNEVIRKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 1

BLAZE AT DANNEVIRKE

BUSINESS PREMISES BADLY DAMAGED TENANTS LOSE HEAVILY Press Association DANNEVIRKE, Today. A fir© occurred shortly before one o'clock in wooden premises in the centre, of the business area, known as the Cosmopolitan Building owned by Mr. Leo Stein and occupied by several tenants. The structure was badly gutted at the back, and the loss to the occupants of premises on the ground floor by smoke and water is estimated to imp into a substantial figure. The fire apparently started downstairs, and the flames ran up to the roof, the brigade being occupied for the best part of an hour before the blaze was under control. Fortunately the night was calm, otherwise a disastrous conflagration would have occurred.

Certain occupants were affected, and the insurances are:—Miss Dillon, milliner, stock and fittings, £227, in the State Office: A. Hannah and Co., women’s outfitters, stock, £SOO, in the South British; R. L. Bartlett and Co., boot importers, stock, £3OO, in the South British, £950 in the State Office, and £250 in the State Office on furniture and effects, damage mostly due to smokeand water; A. Hendry and Co., confectioners, stock, South British, £550; "VV. Chick, dentist, fittings, Norwich Union, £2OO, and Alliance Office £200; George Peters, tobacconist and hairdresser, Royal Exchange Office, amount unknown; Watson and Sinclair, drapers, in whose premises the outbreak is presumed to have originated, stock, £l,lOO, Royal Exchange; Miss McPhail, dressmaker, no insurance. . . The building was insured ill the Alliance Office for £4,400 and in the New Zealand Office for £ 1,600, and the plate glass in the New Zealand Office for £l5O.