DISASTROUS BLAZE
FACTORY ON EIRE
£IO,OOO DAMAGE
(Received Last Night, 10.50 o'clock.)
SYDNEY", November 21
Tho Australian Lithyte Factory at Annandalo, with its contents, was destroyed by fire.
Tho damage is.estimated at £IO,OOO
A large, quantity of oil drums exploded. A public school adjoining escaped, but the children were much alarmed at the explosions, and wero sent home.
A man named Rushton, an employee at the factory, was severely burned before ho escaped from the burning building.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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77DISASTROUS BLAZE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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