Bp Store Burned

Heavy Loss at Ba, Fiji

SUVA, June 1.

THE general store of the Burns, Philp (South Seas) Co., Ltd., at Ba, was completely destroyed by fire yester day. Excluding the value of building and plant, the loss is estimated at £50,000.

The rr2 utbreak occurred a little after 3 P-m. There is no fire-fighting equipment m Ba. Lines of residents, with buckets, managed to get enough water to adjoin ing buildings to save them. Police under Inspector S. E. Gullidge did good work, with a hose from a small pump. But by four o’clock, when the fire brigade arrived by road from Lautoka, 24 miles away, the store and its contents were alreadv destroyed. J

ABOVE: The fire, soon after it had started.

BELOW: The scene two hours later, Photo by Akbar’s Studios.