£lo,ooo DAMAGE
TALLOW FACTORY FIRE PLANT REDUCED TO WRECK 30 TONS OF COAL BURNING (By Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday Fire completely destroyed the tallow factory at Sockburn of the Canterbury By-Products Company, Limited, causing damage estimated at £IO,OOO. The blaze started at about two o’clock this morning and the highlyinflammable material soon caused a terrific fire. Today the building is nothing but a mass of twisted tin, wrecked machinery and burst drums, with some of the tallow and a heap of coal still burning. The building which was razed contained a tallow refining plant, boiling down gear and a store. There was also an engine room containing two boilers, about 30 tons of coal and big stocks of tallow. The tallow stored outside the building was saved.
The total insurance on the property is £20,500 with the New Zealand Insurance Company, and the building destroyed was insured for £B6OO.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 10
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