DISCOVERY OF FIRE
EVIDENCE OF INCENDIARISM. WALLS SPRAYED WITH KEROSENE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 3. While a social was in progress in the Addington School on Saturday evening an attempt was made to bum down the school’s swimming pavilion. After the outbreak had been extinguished it was discovered that tne walls of the dressing sheds had been sprayed with kerosene, while a sack, some sheets of newspaper and some rubbish, all saturated with kerosene had been placed under a seat and set on fire. The damage was only slight Four malicious false alarms of fire were made from the suburbs yesterday, the fire brigade being called out on each occasion. Three of the alarms were raised from street boxes, and in the fourth ease a woman summoned the brigade by a telephone call.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 252, 23 September 1929, Page 6
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134DISCOVERY OF FIRE Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 252, 23 September 1929, Page 6
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