INQUIRY INTO FIRE.
WILFUL INCENDIARISM. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Sept. 21. At the conclusion of the inquiry into the fire on the premises of the Auckland Furnishing Co., Ponsonby, on August 15, Mr. Poynton, S.M., found that the premises were wilfully set on fire, that three tins of benzine were placed there for the purpose of ensuring the destruction of the office and books, there not being sufficient evidence to show who started the fire.
The partners in the Auckland. Furnishing Co. are three returned soldiers, Walter Coombs Vincent, C. Dwyer and Claude Stapleton. Geoffrey Neville, branch manager of the British Trade Insurance Co., stated in evidence that the stock and plant were over-insured by £3lO at the time of the fire.
G. D. Deery, representing the Repatriation Board, stated that in January last the office advanced each of the three partners £3OO, a total of £9OO. The department held a bill of sale over the assets, but in the fire insurance policy the department was not named as mortgagee.
Coombs brought out one of the original partners, Robert Dalaiell, for £214 in. February last.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1921, Page 5
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