FIRE IN LETTER-BOX
POSTMAN’S DISCOVERY ELEVENTH SUSPICIOUS FIRE (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Today. An attempt to burn down the Shirley Post Office in Warrington Street, Christchurch, on Monday night by dropping burning paper into the letter box, was discovered by a postman clearing the box at midnight. A few letters only had been damaged. The postmistress, Mrs. I. M. Palliser, who lives at the office with her two young children, said she saw a man’s feet on a ladder at the window of her bedroom about 11.15 p.m. She hastily pulled down the blind and telephoned to the police. The house is a large wooden one. The letter-box is built into the house, and had the box caught fire the office would have been burned. This is the eleventh suspicious fire in Christchurch in three weeks.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 729, 31 July 1929, Page 18
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137FIRE IN LETTER-BOX Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 729, 31 July 1929, Page 18
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