SPECTACULAR FIRE
DESTRUCTION IN DUNEDIN FOUR BLOCKS GUTTED. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £lOO,OOO. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 5. Sweeping along a narrow path of destruction from Rattray Street to High Street, one of the most spectacular fires ever seen in Dunedin gutted early this morning four well-known blocks of buildings and caused damage estimated at about £lOO,OOO. The buildings destroyed were the Carlton Hotel and Carlton Chambers in High, Street and Paterson’s Buildings and N. and E. S. Paterson’s block in Rattray Street.
The fire started at 1.10 a.m. at the back of Patersons’ Building. So fierce was the blaze that it spread rapidly to the rear of the Carlton Hotel, immediately endangering the whole block. No loss of life occurred, but there were some remarkable escapes, particularly in the case of two persons who were trapped in a burning building.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420406.2.42
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
141SPECTACULAR FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in