AUCKLAND FIRE
SPECTACULAR BLAZE. DAMAGE ABOUT £4OOO. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 17. A loss estimated at about £4OOO was caused in half an hour by a spectacular fire which destroyed the stock and damaged the premises of G. C. Goode and Company, a cabinetmaking firm in Lorne Street in the city just after five.o’clock this afternoon. Speedy work by two brigades confined the flames to the back of the three-story building, saving stocks of veneers and completed furniture worth hundreds of pounds. In its brief course the fire filled the portion of Queen Street between Victoria Street and Wellesley Street with acrid smoke which attracted hundreds of spectators. A foreman polisher, Mr D. Pearce, discovered the outbreak and attacked the flames with a foam extinguisher but before it. could be brought properly into use he was driven out of the room by the intense heat, with burns to one arm. Firemen wearing respirators went in and. working at close quarters, had the outbreak almost extinguished within half an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1941, Page 7
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170AUCKLAND FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1941, Page 7
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