FIRES IN CHRISTCHURCH
TWO SUSPICIOUS OUTBREAKS MUFFLED EXPLOSION HEARD Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. Two suspicious fires occurred in the city on Saturday night. In one case the outbreak began in a washhouse which had not been used during the day and spread to the kitchen, where the brigade checked it. In the other case a small office attached to J. E. Cooper’s coalyard in Montreal Street was destroyed. An employee living nearby was awakened by the sound of a muffled explosion and ran out to see the front wall of the structure in flames.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 16
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