WANGANUI FIRE
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Damage to Marist Brothera' School
(By Telegrapb-
WANGANUI, This Day. An early morning fiTe which started m a study gutted the Marist Bros. living quarters attached to the school at the corner of Wicksteed and Dublin streets. Water also flooded the classrooms which could not be used to-day. The library and all the school records were destroyed. Brothers Oswyn, Sylvester and Brenden sleeping on the premises had narrow escapes, having to make their w4y out of a window on to a steep roof over tbe classroom which, owing to frost, was very slippery at the time. The building. a wooden one, was erected 40 years ago.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 4
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110WANGANUI FIRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 4
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