FIRE NEAR MAKARAKA.
MR C. SUFF’S HOUSE DESTROYED PRACTICALLY NOTHING SAVED. A four-roomed house, owned and occupied by Mr. Charles Suff, and situated nearly opposite the Park Racecourse, was totally destroyed by fire about midnight last night. It appears that Sirs Suff, with two children, was sewing in the kitchen, awaiting her husbands’ return front Makairaka, when one of the children, in attempting to straighten the tablecloth, upset a kerosene lamp standing on the table.
No help being immediately available, the place was soon enveloped in flames. A few articles of furniture were saved by neighbors who arrived shortly afterwards, but any attempt to slay the flames would have been futile. Half an hour after the outbreak a. pile of glowing debris and the chimneys were all that remained of the structure. None of the outbuildings and stables were seriously damaged, and those, ins the immediate vicinity of the house were only slightly scorched. It is understood that the house was insured, but neither the amount nor the nam,e cf_ the office holding the risk were ascertainable last evening.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3305, 25 August 1911, Page 4
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179FIRE NEAR MAKARAKA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3305, 25 August 1911, Page 4
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