The combined: forces of the Settlement and the Harbour Fire Bridges zarly yesterday. morning battled what might have developed into a serious fire on board the NYK. steamship- Tatuno Maru, at the company's Wayside wharf.
The flames were first observed in the No. 4 hold of the freighter at about 7 a.m. Shortly after 8.15, the Customs fire-float Poochi and the Settlement Fire Brigade were summoned, and when fire crews arrived at the wharf they found that various chemicals were on fire in the hold and were sending forth dense clouds of fumes. The burning cargo tween-decks consisted largely of ferrosilicon, calcium carbide and sodium
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