SUSPICIOUS FIRE
OUTBREAK AT PAERATA TIMELY DISCOVERY (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, To-day. An attempt at what: appeared to be incendiarism occurred at a Paerata store at midnight. When proceeding from Pukekohe to his home at Papatoetoe, Edwin Parker, a schoolmaster at Flat Bush School, discovered a fire under the building and gave the alarm to the owner. Air. T. Corker, who was living nearby, and with the assistance of a porter named Johnson, of the Paerata railway station, the fire, which had only just got a hold, was extinguished. It was ascertained that an old dressbasket and cotton waste saturated with grease and oil had been placed under the building.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 13
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111SUSPICIOUS FIRE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 13
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