DAMAGE BY FIRE.
BLAZE AT A HOSPITAL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, August K. Early this morning the watchman discovered a fire in the roof of the laundry engine-room at tlie Wairau hospital, a large new building. No appliances were available to fight the (lames. The moveables were saved, but the buildiDg was completely gutted and the electric light plant badly damaged. Tlie building and plant are valued at £»00O, and the insurance is £4500. CHEESE FACTORY DESTROYED. Woodville, August 12. About midnight the United Co-opera-tive Dairy Company's McLean Street cheese factory was totally destroyed by fire. The insurances on the building amount to £9OO, .for the plant £O7O, and" for the cheese making material £250, all of which are in the Government State Fire Insurance Office. The loss above the insurance is estimated at £ISOO. OUTBREAK AT RAGLAN. Raglan, August 12. Gilmour Bros.' general store was totally destroyed by fire last night. Nothing was saved but the books. The insurances are: Stock (Royal) £3750, building (State) £OSO. The estimated loss above the insurance is about £3OO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1920, Page 6
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