FURTHER PARTICULARS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
PIiLMEiRSTQN N., July 23. j Fire comancneed . in' 'Ball's bi.'iliard room. Despite. tlie efforte of a bucket brigade, it swept the whole biack < of wooden bix.ildings on the eastern .side of the street, '.all being one-storey [ •building's. The outside of j S'tiles' large shop wa© .of corrugated ■iron, wfinich Jairgeiy assisted m pre-, veiiiting the fire spreading to the Presibytc-rinn .Ohuircfo, an. old vcodrn/ building with a shingle roof situated . 40 feet away. Rid the church groo. nothing coiild have saved the polka j station and .residence, tlie ccurth-oixp I and ' probably the new town hall, j ■Whyte's Hotel was next to Bill's,,, where the fire''started, but a soaith-,' cfccte-rly wiind drove tho flames in the' .
opposite .direction. ' - .Tlio "building© owned % Mcr. lldiyMve, Mrp Austin 'and 0% H'.. Sti'.es. FJvs Nye ancl Betty, were burned out in the previous big fire. <a-r.d tkev .wore occupying temporary (pmrisos. A quantity of goods we salvaged by a. targe cixr.vd of people. A coni.Ciiden.ee in coiincot:cti with •tiig conflagration Avas that Superintendent of the Pafenor-stcn Fire Brigade, was in Foxton yesterday, submitting :i ycteme to the Borough Council tfcfc iiro prevention. Tke fire burned itself out aibcait 2.30 this morning. (The ins-ur.a'nces ai-e mot yet available.
The same block was\ -JntTned in 1903.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 6
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215FURTHER PARTICULARS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 6
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