FIRE CHARGE AGAINST BOY
School House Destroyed (N Z. Press Association) GISBORNE. June 28. A 14-year-old boy appeared In the Gisborne Children's Court charged with wilfully setting fire to a house last Thursday. The house was the schoolmaster’s residence at the Whangaparaoa Maori School, near Cape Runaway. It was completely destroyed. No-one was in the house at the time.
The house was less than two years old. Some of the furniture was insured, but not all of it. The schoolmaster, Mr Robert Penetito, was acting as Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. The records were destroyed in the fire, as well as school records. Mr E. S. Toogoot, Justice of the Peace, remanded the boy in the custody of the Child Welfare Department until July 4.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31098, 29 June 1966, Page 9
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126FIRE CHARGE AGAINST BOY Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31098, 29 June 1966, Page 9
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