FIRE IN WELLINGTON
DAMAGE IN BUSINESS BUILDING SOME ROOMS GUTTED. STOCK SPOILED BY WATER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. _ A fire in the early hours of this morning at Nos. .102-104 Wakefield Street was responsible for considerable damage to stocks, mainly by water, some damage to the building and the complete gutting of the studio of Max Studios, display advertisers, where the fire started, at the rear of the top floor. An empty room alongside was also burned out and partitions in a passage were blackened and charred. The offices of Charles McPhee and Company, woollen warehousemen, escaped with damage to the ceiling and some minor water damage. i Water, dirt and charred wood penetrated to the floor below, considerably damaging the stocks of J. E. Sutcliffe Ltd., warehousemen, which had been covered with canvas sheets by the firemen, thus preventing serious loss. Water- reaching the Bible and Tract Depot, two floors below, was particularly destructive, ruining a quantity of books and pamphlets.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1940, Page 6
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164FIRE IN WELLINGTON Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1940, Page 6
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