FIERCE FIRE
TALLOW FACTORY DESTROYED AT SOCKBURN BUILDING MASS OF WRECKAGE. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £10,900. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 6. A fire completely destroyed the tallow factory at Sockburn, of Canterbury Bye-Products Co., Ltd., causing damage estimated at £lO,OOO. The blaze started at about two o’clock and the highly inflammable material soon caused a terrific fire.; Today the building is nothing but a mass of twisted tin, wrecked machinery and burst drums, with some of the tallow and a heap of coal still burning. The building, which was razed, contained a tallow refining plant, boiling down gear and a store. There was also an engine room containing two boilers, about 30 tons of coal and big stocks of tallow. Tallow stored in an outside building was saved. The total insurance on the' property is £20,500 and the building destroyed was insured for £8,600.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 6
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