GREAT FIRE IN SYDNEY.
• LIOO.OOO DAMAGE." . Sydney, December 18.' One of the biggest fires that have occurred in Sydney for some years past destroyed Canada buildings, a huge seven-storey structure in George Street West, occupied 'by Williams Bros' Motor Agency, The Fire Brigades' splendid efforts succeeded largely in restraining the outbreak to the one building, though a number of adjoining and a branch of tin Bank of Njw South Wales suffered considerably by fire and water, and from the toppling walls of the main building. The fire has now got under. At a rou?h estimate the damage is fullv L 103.00). The firms affected nre: Universal Film Company, Anchor ffiij Proprietary, Eckersley and S|ons, soda water manufacturers, Wybrow and Company, shoe manufacturers, and a number of smaller businesses. . The caretaker's family escaped by means of the lift, which dropped through the roaring ilames.
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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 December 1913, Page 3
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143GREAT FIRE IN SYDNEY. Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 December 1913, Page 3
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