DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[llV 1 LLI.GK.VPU —rEK I'HESS ASSOCIATION.] A SCHOOL FIRE. AUCKLAND. December dO. A Ihc at midnight destroyed the remainder of the main building of Epsom pul,lie school. A month ago the northern wing ol three rooms was burned. The firctimr-.t.itifcs arouse grave suspicions of in: endiai i-iii. The laU.st lii broke out with standing rapidity. Tip flame suddenly shot up. and almost imtir dialely the whole building was ablaze. Tie brigade arrived quickly, but the tl .tines had Stub a hold on the v.in den class looms that there was no hoie of toy salvage. The Homes threatened to extend to the infant, school tiiiiy feet away. se.it it c,raped damage. 'I I; • ,o ennui of the Brigade, which via it e l lir.-t. -ttys black smoke Would not ho < xpceted from wooden bnifib: gs, let; < otthl he expected from a volatile oil. The school regist-rs were destroyed in the first lire and last night's Ida/. - involved the destruction of the new icgistors and examination schedules fer every pujiil. DUNEDIN ITEMS. DUNEDIN. Devemhe! -.>o. The -‘June" litis been seiected (‘logo's representative for the Sander- Cup.

At a - in | meeting if the Directors of the N’i w Zealand S- util Sens Exhibition Coy., J. Sutherland Ro.-s (C'hairt.aan; wa , tiiianimoii.-lv appointed Tresi(h id ol the lorthcnuiiim Exhlktioiii. Obituary Rev. .John MefniK-s O’rcshyierintil who had occupied charges in vaiiu- 1 arts of New Z-'aland.