SAUNDERS ROAD SCHOOL.
THE RECENT FIRE. Messrs A. W. Hogg, MJP., and 4. H. Vilo, members of iho Wellington Education Board, held an enquiry in Mr W. J. Saunders' residence on Friday night last into the cause of the fire by which the Saunders' Road school was destroyed. Evidence was given by Mr Ralph (the teacher), a lad named Benton (the school cleaner), Mr E. Saunders; Mrs C. Benton, and Mr Algie, junr. This went to show that tho fira occurred somo short while after 'the school was closed; that everything had been left in apparent safety by the cleaner or the school; tlntfc there were cracks in the fireplace, and that a heavy gale was blowing at the time. The only possible theory for the outbreak was that fire had been communicated with the tirabera ■' in the building through the defects in the fireplace. Messrs Hogg and Vile decided to report to the Board accordingly, and to recommend, that in future the chimneys of small schools be built outside instead of inside the buildincjs, and that, as a further security, chimneys be cemented or plastered on the inside
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10238, 15 May 1911, Page 5
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189SAUNDERS ROAD SCHOOL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10238, 15 May 1911, Page 5
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