FIRE IN LIBRARY
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Labour Department's Loss
. (B.y Telegrapk-
WELLINGTON, Last Night. A fire which broke out in the Labour Department 'a library about 7 o'clock to-night praetically gutted that section of the Department's offices on the second floor of the Hope Gibbons building, and destroyed a number of files and records, but these are believed to be unimportant. The seat of the fire appeared to be in the eorridor next to the library. Some papers which had evidqntly been smouldering for some time burned through the partiti0n igniting the shelves of books in the library.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 170, 5 August 1937, Page 3
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