OUTBREAKS OF FIRE AT RANFURLY
MAN CHARGED AT DUNEDIN (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, September 12. In the Magistrate’s Court this morning Harold Robertson Black was charged with wilfully setting fire to a shop and bakehouse, the property of James John Jones, at Ranfurly, on September 8. Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., was on the Bench. Chief-Detective T. E. Holmes asked for a remand until September 19. Mr O. G. Stevens, who appeared for the accused, entered no objection to a remand and applied for ball, stating that the accused’s family was well known in Ranfurly. Chief-Detective Holmes said that this was a very serious case and the accused would be charged on at least one further count of the same nature. Property to the value of £3OOO had been destroyed as a result of two fires at Ranfurly, and he asked that bail should be fixed at a substantial sum. A remand was granted, bail being fixed at £2OO, with one surety of £2OO, on condition that the accused report dally to the police.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22505, 13 September 1938, Page 15
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174OUTBREAKS OF FIRE AT RANFURLY Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22505, 13 September 1938, Page 15
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