AITKEN STREET FIRE
DAMAGE TO FORTY-THREE PROPERTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Including buildings destroyed or badly damaged, 43 separate properties with 86 separate occupiers (families or business firms) were affected in the recent big fire in Aitken Street, Welling* ton, according to the official survey, which was completed last week. Of the 86 occupiers affected, 43. many of them heavy losers, carried no insurance on their belongings. Further particulars of insurances are not yet available. The Hotel Cecil in Lambton Quay and the property of the Oxy-Acetone Welding Company in Thorndon Quay were two of the most distant points affected. In addition to the Social Security building, affected premises owned by the Government included No 2 and No. 14 Aitken Street, No 26 Sydney Street and Nos 25 and 27 Mulgrave Street.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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134AITKEN STREET FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5
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