FIRE AT WHAKATANE
PAPER MILLS DAMAGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association i WHAKATANE, This Day. There was an outbreak of fire at the Whakatane Paper Mills waste paper store at one o’clock this morning. Three hundred tons were destroyed and the concrete building was gutted. The alarm was given at 1.30 a.m. and the brigade travelled five miles to the mill, which is outside its area, and worked from two o’clock. It was still fighting the outbreak at eight o’clock, but it was then under control. Water had to be pumped from the adjacent river.
The manager, Mr Horrocks, stated that the building was fully insured in the Norwich Union Office for £2,500. The cause of the outbreak is unknown, but it is thought that the fire may have been due to spontaneous combustion in the tightly-packed paper, which was required to commence cardboard manufacture in March.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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145FIRE AT WHAKATANE Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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