FIRE AT OPUNAKE.
PRINCIPAL BUSINESS QUARTER DESTROYED. (Bf TtUgrash. — Fret* AiMOciaiionJ HAWERA, Last Night, A disastrous fire occurred at Opurake at midnight, resulting in the destruction of Middleton's Hotel and ten shops. The principal business: quarter of the town was burned. Middleton's Hotel, Marshall's office, Loan and Mercantile store, the premises of Mildenhall . (saddler), Kennell (bookseller), Aitken (blacksmith), Dubley (butcher), and Nicho-1 (tea rooms), Watson's boardinghouse, Jackson's office, Holmes" and Arthurs' store, and Heath's furniture warehouse, were destroyed. The Bank of New Zealand building I had a very narrow escape. A choppy I wind prevailed throughout. j It seems that the fire started about midnight in the laundry part of the hotel. There/was practically no water supply, and the fire spread m> rapidly that by 2.30 the greater p»rt of the town was reduced to ruins, and presented a heart-breaking appearance. t The fire brigade dynamited Nichols' tea-rooms, and the gap thus made, and the concrete wall of Burthen's shop, arrested the progress of the fire on that side of the street.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 6
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172FIRE AT OPUNAKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 6
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