"SMELT BENZINE. "
FIRE BRIGADE OFFICIAL
EVIDENCE IN WELLINGTON.
(By Telegrapii.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
Indications that benzine or similar inflammable liquid was used to set fire to a building in Vivian Street on Sunday, June 17. were described by witnesses in the Magistrate's Court to-day during a coronial inquiry. The building was occupied by P. G. Brazier. The- Chief Inspector of Explosives, R. Girling-Butcher, cross-examined, said there were indications that the fire was deliberately started simultaneously in three rooms. Joseph Creeke, deputy superintendent of the Wellington Fir© Brigade, said he emelt benzine when he was in Tory Street before arriving on the scene. (Proceeding.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 184, 6 August 1934, Page 9
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