MORNING BLAZE
OLD MASONIC HALL BURNED IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Billowing smoke shortly after nine o’clock today attracted a large crowd to Boulcott Street, where the old Masonic Hall, a lofty pile ol ancient timber, occupied for some years past by the Wellington Cabinet Company as a factory for furniture and bedding, provided the thrill they were looking for. The lire had a good hold when the firemen got there. All that could be done was to prevent the spread ol the Hames to adjoining residences old wooden houses that nestled close on all sides except the street frontage. This was successfully accomplished, though some suffered from Hie ell eels of water and smoke. Only (lie shell of the hall now stands. The interior is completely gutted and any of the contents not actually burned are still destroyed. Neither the cause of the lire nor the amount of the loss could be ascertained immediately.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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158MORNING BLAZE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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