FIRE IN GISBORNE STABLE
VALUABLE HORSES DESTROYED By Telegraph.—Pres* Association. Gisborne, Last Night. Shortly after nine o’clock on Saturday night a lire broke out in the training stable of Mr. A. E. Butterworth at To Harapa, a suburb of Gisborne. When the brigade arrived, one stable, containing an Our King—Golconda filly, named Strata, owned by Mr. J. S. Kirkpatrick, was a mass of flames and the horse wae burnt to death. The flames spread rapidly to the next box, containing a three-year-old cUlt named Lee Fong, by Autumn, and owned by Mr. A. Fraser. This colt wae so badly burned that it 1.11 to be destroyed. The flames then spread to the chaffhouse, which was baaiy damaged. On tho other side of the chaff-house were three stables containing the racehorses Scotch Mixture, Ratiata and Superb King. Willing helpers rushed in and opened the doors as soon as the flames were first seen and these three horses escaped, though Scotch Mixture was somewhat knocked about. Particulars regarding the insurances are not available.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1926, Page 8
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171FIRE IN GISBORNE STABLE Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1926, Page 8
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