Post by NZBC on Nov 19, 2009 18:48:48 GMT 12
EKETAHUNA, this day. A fire occurred in Main street at 5.30 a.m. on Sunday. It destroyed Turner and Co.'s butcher's shop - and contents, and Mrs Wolfe's stationery shop and contents. It also badly damaged a shop occupied by Wah Kee, fruiterer, and owned by A. H. Herbert, and an empty shop owned by C. C. Turner. The recently installed high pressure water supply was instrumental in checking the further spread of the fire. The insurances were : Wolfe's stock and contents, £375; Turnerr and Co.'s machinery and fittings, £200 -. buildings owned by C. C. Turner, £515 • Wah Kee's shop, £150 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13078, 19 May 1913, Page 3