DESTROYING SCHOOL PROPERTY
A SYSTEM OF INCENDIARISM. by XelegraplL—Pre«» Association. , Auckland, Wednesday. At the meeting of the Board of Edu,ition the chairman remarked upon t'-ie araprdinary frequency of destruction fire of school property, and raised ■ question whether the Departmint mid be flaked to' insure... In. one dls_t north of Aucklandjhete was clew evidence of a system of. incendiarism. Two unsuccessful attempts, he said, were made to burn the teacher's hou?e "»t Awanui. At Qwhata, some , little i distance away, an-unsuccessful.attempt liwas made to burn the school, hut it the second attempt made the school was burned to the ground. The cottage used as a schoolhouse was removed to the Maori Church. This met with a' similar fate. Then came 4hc turning of the Herekino School, four miles from Owhata. This morning ho had been advi«ed ihat the Greerton school, near Tauxanga, had been burned down. Indication pointed to the fact that nine <u't ,' of ten fires were the result of incendiarism. The Board renewed its offoof a Teward of £SO for th;. conviction of i" the incendiary in connection with the [L fire at Herekino.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 265, 16 December 1909, Page 3
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185DESTROYING SCHOOL PROPERTY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 265, 16 December 1909, Page 3
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