FIRE IN CHRISTCHURCH
~t> JOINERY WORKS DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 9. The joinery works of D. Scott and Sons, Montreal Street, were completely destroyed by a fire which broke out early this morning. The alarm was given at 1.45 a.m.. when the fire had a good hold and there appeared lo be no prospect of saving the building. The efforts of the brigade were directed to getting the fire under control as quickly as possible and preventing it from spreading to a large quantity of timber close by. By concentrating hoses from three separate directions, the brigadesmen lost little time in subduing the fire, although it was impossible at that stage to save any portion of the joinery works. Within half an hour of the alarm being given, the fire had been reduced to a steaming, sodden mass of corrugated iron and charred beams. The loss runs into several thousands of pounds.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1940, Page 6
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154FIRE IN CHRISTCHURCH Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1940, Page 6
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