Fire Brigade exercise burning down old hotel.                                                                                                                                                                                            

Filmed by Gordon Hughson one Saturday morning in the early 1960’s, the controlled burning of a Boarding house in Patea by the Patea Fire Brigade. The building was originally the Australasian Hotel built in 1869.

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Narrated by Jacq Dwyer

Film Credit Gordon Hughson