FIRE IN BLENHEIM
COMMERCIAL HOTEL BLENHEIM, Last Night. Early on Sunday morning the Commercial Hotel, a wooden building in Grove Road, was totally destroyed. The outbreak was first noticed in the storeroom, and had too great a hold for the inmates to check it. When the brigade arrived there was no hope of saving the hotel, which soon was a roaring mass of flames. The origin of the fire is attributed to matcheating by rats. Very little of the personal effects of the boarders was saved. The building<was owned by tho Marlborough Brewery Company, and occupied by Mr. P. Creedon. The insurances are*: Buildings, £SOO in the Commercial Union Office, £3OO in the Victoria Office, £2oo' in the Norwich Union Office. The stock, furniture, and piano are covered by £240 in the South British Office.
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Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 5
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135FIRE IN BLENHEIM Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 5
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