FIRE HOSE REMOVED.
TWO BUILDINGS BURNED.
INCENDIARISM INDICATED.
EMPTY KEROSENE TINS FOUND.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, this day.
A fir© at 4 a.m. to-day destroyed the Waitara "Evening Mail" building and Chadwick's confectionery shop.
Incendiarism is suspected. Two kerosene tins, recently emptied, were found near the building. About 200 ft of hose, which was kept on a reel, was discovered three-quartersrof* a mile -away. / - The insurance on the Chadwick building and stock was £1195, and on the "Mail" building and stock, £600.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 208, 3 September 1929, Page 9
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