FIRES IN CHRISTCHURCH
INCENDIARISM NOT YET SUSPECTED. BUT POLICE MAKING THOROUGH INVESTIGATIONS. (B.v Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "Four outbreaks of fire in the city 7 last night and a number of other large fires recently do not. in themselves give any cause to believe that incendiarists are active in the city.” said Chief-Detective Dunlop this morning. “Fires have occurred in cycles before, and this might be just an unfortunate succession of outbreaks. As yet the police have no reason to believe otherwise. Nevertheless, in war time especially. the theory that some disgruntled people are making trouble in this way cannot be discounted and we are making thorough investigations. So far the buildings all have been so well alight when the alarm was raised that little could be saved, and any trace of petrol, combustibles or explosives, if any had been there, would have been destroyed. There has been nothing to cause suspicion yet, however."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 6
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