FIRE IN GUNDRY-STHEET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 352, 20 March 1889, Page 5

FIRE IN GUNDRY-STHEET.

The third outbreak was in Gundry-streefc, Newton, where a four-roomed cottage, owned and occupied by Mr Percy Porter, carpenter, was completely gutted. The occupants were absent at the time of the discovery, which was made by Mr Ernest Waddell, who was on a visit to Mr Cash's residence, situated on the opposite side of the road. Messrs Waddell and Cash, and Edwards, of H.M.s. Opal, bur&t open the front door and found that the flames had a good hold. There had been clothes hanging in front of a fire in the kitchen, and the outbreak appeared to have originated there. The alarm was given piomptly by the persons named, who also rescued tho greater part of the furniture, both from Portei's house and an adjoining house. The Newton contingent of the Fire Brigade and City Brigade were promptly on the scene, and stayed the progress of the fire after it had gutted Porter's house. A house belonging to Mr W. P. Smith, coachbuilder, also caught fire, but the flames weie extinguished before any serious damage was done. Porter's house is insured by the Co-operative Building Society for ClOO in the Victoiia Office, and Mr Porter has additional insurances of £30 on the house and £30 on furniture in the London and Lancashire Office.