HORSE-FLOAT ABLAZE
Police Inve»tigation« Reiult in Arrest - EX-EMPLOYEE 0F 0WNER g- - 'dkf A fire in the dTiver'f cab qf a horse* fioat the property of Mr Q, W, R. Mo» Gormick and sitpated in a storage shed in Tomoana road was responsihle for the calling out of the Hastings Fir«j Brigade shortly after 4.30 o'clqck Je3* terday afternoon, When the brigade arrived on th« scene there was a big blaze, the out>i break apparently having obtained a gQod hold, However, the brigade was successful in confining the fiaxqes tq the cab pf the vehicle," which was fair-j ly extensively damaged. The circumstances surroundiug the outbfeak led to a thorough investiga-. tion by the. police, for fhe macbluq had not been used since; the previuug day and, as far as was known, had not even been handled by an anthoris., ed person dqring the day. Interesting) developments took placf this morning, Detective-Sergeant L. B. J. Revell effecting the arrest of a man who, it is alleged, wqs responsihle for thei putbreak of the fire, and who was recently femporarily in the .employ of Mr McOormick. The accused is to ap^ pear before the Court this afternoon.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 4
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