The Evening Post 15 May 1939 reported:
Fire at Levin
Three shops damaged
Burning paint and oil
Three shops in Oxford Street, the main thoroughfare, of Levin, were damaged by a fire which engaged the attention of firemen for nearly three hours late last night and early this morning. The shops of H. Foley, painter and paperhanger, and of Fuen Key Leong, a Chinese fruiterer, were gutted, and that of W. Stannard, a bookseller, suffered fire and water damage to the extent of about £800.