FIRE AT FACTORY
BUILDING BURNED TO GROUND.
MOST OF PLANT DESTROYED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI. February 8. Fire broke out in the boiler-room of the Rankitikei Co-operative Dairy Company’s factory building, near Bulls, late this afternoon and, fanned by a strong north-westerly wind, the flames destroyed the building and most of the plant within an hour. Nobody was working in the building at the time and a farmer living nearby raised the alarm. The manager of the factory, Mr C. V. Green, and his staff made a great effort to save the building, but without water and equipped only with fire extinguishers they could not do..much. The boiler-room was at the northern end of the factory, and thus the wind carried the fire right through the building. Lorries, office furniture and papers were saved by the staff and the storeroom, about 40 yards away from the factory, was saved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 9
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149FIRE AT FACTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 9
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