FIRES AT HOWICK
THREE MEN BEFORE COURT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) •.■■; AUCKLAND, This Day. A plea .of guilty to setting fire to the Ho wick School on January 31, and also to the house of Maurice Duribar at Ho wick was entered" by Vernon Albert Smallman, aged 20, farm labourer, in the Otahuhu Police Court this, morning. '.■ The police said that the accused made a statement admitting that he set fire to a-pile of pine needles under the school .building. The accused was committed to the Police Court for sentence on both charges, bail being fixed at £150. William Henry Charles Roxborough, a storeman, aged '22, and lan Murdoch .Mcßae, farm assistant, aged .20, were charged with setting fife.to the pavilion .at'the Hov/ick tennis, courts.' Rpxborough pleaded guilty'and was committed, for sentence. Mcßae. pleaded not guilty and ■■ was committed ' for trial. Bail in each case was fixed at £100. "
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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148FIRES AT HOWICK Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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