FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 224, 1 March 1915, Page 7

FIRES.

| A BIG BLAZE. Tamnarunui, Saturday. Ellis and Bernard's box factory at Manunui was burnt down early this morning. The fire was observed bv tlu watchman at 3 a.m. He blew the mill whistle to alarm the mill officials, and the men turned out quickly and worked hard to save the factory, am! prevented the lire spreading to the adjoining mill. The damage was about £20,0000, including four hundred thousand' feet of dressed white pine ready for shipment, butter-boxes, fruit cases, etc.; also very valuable machinery. About thirty men, mostly young and unmarried, are thrown out of employment. The amount of the insurancs has not yet been ascertained. The fire among the timber in the. box factory is still burning, but the. large stocks of timber in the yard are safe. The factory supplied many dairy companies throughout the Dominion with their boxes. 1' our years ago a very similar fire occuried and destroyed a 'former box factory on the same scale.

If VO"V property is not insured, call at or ring up the United Insurance Co., Ltd . Cnn-ie Street; telephone 100. J. C. Spedding, district agent. Insurances effected on the most favorable terms.