SCHOOL FIRES.
INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. [BY TFLEURAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION-I AUCKLAND, This Day. At a meeting of the Board of Education the chairman iemarked upon the extraordinary frequency of destruction by fire of school property, and raised the question vhether the department should be asked to insure. In one district north of Auckland there was clear evidence of a system of incendiarism. Two unsuccessful attempts had been mado to burn the teacher's house at Awanui ; at Awhata, some little- distance away, an unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the school but on a second attempt being made the school was burned to the ground. A cottage used as a schoolhousc was next destroyed by fire and the school removed to the Maori Church. This met with a similar fate. Then camo the burning of the Herekino School, four miles irom Awhata and this morning he had bean advised that Greenton School, near Tauranga, had been burned down. The indications pointed . to nine out of ten fires being the result of incendiarism. The board decided to offer a reward of £50 for the conviction of the incendiary in connection with the fire at Herekino.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 144, 15 December 1909, Page 8
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