FIRE AT WANGANUI
MAR IST BROTHERS’ QUARTERS.
SCHOOL RECORDS LOST. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, June 30. Early this morning a fire which started in the study gutted the J urist Brothers’ living quarters attached to the school at the corner ol Wicksteed and Dublin Streets., Mater also flooded tlie classrooms, which could not be used to-day. The library and all the school records were destroyed. Brothers'Oswyn, Sylvester and Bronden who were sleeping on the premises had narrow escapes, having 'to make their way out ol a window on to a steei) roof over a classroom which, owing to the frost, was very slippery at the time. The building, a wooden one, was erected 40 years ago.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 8
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116FIRE AT WANGANUI Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 8
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