OLD WOODEN HOTEL
v I DESTROYED AT FORDELL. EARLY MORNING FIRE ■Uy Telegraph— Press A-. .in.:, » ; WANGANUI. This Day i, The Fordell Hotel, an old woodenK building of !1 rooms, was destroyed 1 i by tire at 3.11 a.m. today. The build-i ing was occupied by the licensee. MtJ G. A. Lishman. his wife, a waitress and; ft boarder, who had lime to .ive some! of their personal clfecl' The tire j started in the kitchen and wo. tin I seen by the driver and fireman of ;J goods train entering the Fordell Rail- j way Station. The prolonged blow my j of the train whist!.- arou-.ed the pv«>p:< 1 in the hotel and ;»!«<* many it. Fordid township. I ’ During the height of tile tire, Wein I ster’s grocery suwe wa- tlu< : ’.-ncd but was saved by wet sacks ;md blankets aftixed to tile wall >!' the .■‘■ie'J and kept .* atm ..led with wiitri A fox terrier dog was burn* In the 1 fire, 'rhe dog rarnr out ..f tit-- " 'el but went back into the building. I* The hotel was >-’A ::e-i ',f; It -‘ Corrigan. Warn: mu i I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 6
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