A SERIOUS FIRE.
BLOCK OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED. INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. BT TV4TiIB<JRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, September 21. About 1.30 o'clock on Sunday morning a lire was discovered in one of a row of small wooden shops at Fairlie. As there were no fire appliances four shops and a building used as a temporary post and telegraph office since the destruction of the railway station a few weeks ago, were burned. The block was owned by H. Fraser, and occupied by Sutherlands and Phillips, butchers, H. Fraser, auctioneer, Mrs Watts, general storekeeper, and Parkep, draper. The building adjoining, temporarily occupied by the Bank of New Zealand, was considerably damaged. The insurances on the stock total £6OO, apart from what there may be on £250 worth of jewellery carried by Parkes as agent for. Jones and Son, Chrhtchurch. The contents of the post office were saved. Incendiarism is suspected.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2998, 22 September 1908, Page 6
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145A SERIOUS FIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2998, 22 September 1908, Page 6
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