INCENDIARISM.
< THE PAHIATTJA SCHOOL' FIRE. .At yesterday's meeting of the Welling.; ■' ton Education Board the magisterial re-, port upon the circumstances connected .with the recent destruction, '.-. by fire, : of the new district high.school at Pahiatua. was received.: There was no theory as to the origin of the fire, beyond the opinion: ■■■' that.the Sre started id the southern por--tibn of the bnilding. • ■'■;, ...'.. The chairman, commenting upon the report, remarked, that he was very errongiy of opinion that : the Are was the work of "•:', ai;incendiary'.during-'the 'Towelka" sea-. ■■■ son.'■ Within, a.short period,- two valu-' able school buildings—one' at Palmerston ' .and the other' at" Pahiatua—had-"'been " 'mysteriously "destroj-ed by- fire; -'and: at the" tinie'when there' had 'been; a" regular '"'- epidemio' of fires in the Palmerston district. ■ ■• : i--- .-'■■■ -V"r-:.' '■ . . '• •Mr. Hogg observed that traces,of the supposed incendiary had been-discovered bv the-police, finger-prints being plentj. M. :■- ■' ■;■- ,',':. '■:■■.y--.. -..'■ The board decided to make formal ap-' plication to the Government for & graat . in aid of a n«w building. . . '. ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 4
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159INCENDIARISM. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 4
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