THREE HAYSTACKS BURNED
POLICE TO INVESTIGATE Press Association. BLENHEIM, Friday. Fire destroyed three valuable stacks of hay on Mr. F. E. Fairweather’s Homelands property at Burleigh last night. The circumstances are most suspicious, and it is considered that the fire had an incendiary origin. Mr. Fairweather arrived home at 11 p.m., and there was then no sign of fire, but 15 minutes later the three stacks simultaneously broke into flames while there was also an outbreak in a hedge about 150yds distant. The night was calm and there was •no possibility of the fire having been spread by the wind. The stacks had been laid down since December 23, so there is little possibility of the outbreak having been caused by spontaneous combustion. The stacks contained about 50 tons of prime rye grass, white clover and lucerne hay, and were worth about £250. They nepresent the whole of Mr. Fairweather’s winter feed. The police have been asked to investigate the matter.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 12
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