A DISASTROUS FIRE.
. I WAXGANUI HIGH SCHOOL DESTROYED. '•By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGAM Ul, Last Night. There was a disastrous blaze at noon-to-day,, by which-"the District High School was practically destroyed, only the walls of the new brick portion being left standing. while a clean sweep was" made of the old timber-built wing. 111-fortune seems to have attended these school buildings. About two and a half years ago a fire broke out in the old portion of the building, which was totally destroyed, two newer rooms being saved. The .brick-built structure of large dimensions replaced the burned portion, the building being completed fifteen months' ago. All the buildings are now destroyed. Painters completed renovating only yesterday morning. The origin of the fire is a mystery. There is no insurance on the building, the department taking its own risk.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 13 January 1911, Page 5
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137A DISASTROUS FIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 13 January 1911, Page 5
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