FIRE IN MASTERTON
BOARDING HOUSE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED. OUTBREAK CONFINED TO ONE ROOM. A child playing with matches is said to have been responsible for an outbreak of fire which occurred yesterday afternoon in a boarding house, 19 Lincoln Road, Masterton. The curtains in the bedroom in which the child was playing became ignited and the flames spread to the wall paper and bedding. The Masterton Fire Brigade received the call by telephone at 2.30 p.m. and Superintendent T. B. Clark, with four men turned out with the motor pump unit. The brigade quickly extinguished the outbreak, which was confined to the bedroom, which suffered damage from fire and water. A quantity of bedding was destroyed. The bedroom •concerned was on the first floor. The building, a wooden one of 18 rooms, is owned by Mr Lars Kjai. and occupied by Mrs Victoria Felicia Garside. No insurance particulars are available.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1940, Page 4
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149FIRE IN MASTERTON Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1940, Page 4
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