COSTLY FIRE
BIG FACTORY BUILDING GUTTED IN SYDNEY DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT MORE THAN £lOO,OOO. FIVE ADJOINING HOUSES WRECKED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 1.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Damage, estimated at more than £100,600, was done when the city’s most spectacular fire in seven years gutted a five-storey factory building in Glebe. The premises were occupied by five manufacturing firms, whose 700 employees will be unemployed for some weeks at least. Five adjoining houses were wrecked by crashing masonry and others were damaged. The cause of the fire is not known. Some 15,000 people watched the blaze, Lhe biggest in Sydney since Goldsbrough Mort’s wool store was gutted in September, 1935.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4
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112COSTLY FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4
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