RECENT FIRES
NO CONNEXION FOUND A denial of the rumour that a connexion had been discovered by the police between the recent fires in the Avon Theatre and the timber mill in Churchill street was given yesterday by the Superintendent of Police at Christchurch (Mr H. Scott), who said that inquiries into the fires had not yet been completed, but that nothing of a suspicious nature had been found to indicate incendiarism. “There is ndthing to suggest anything sinister about the fires, and there has been no evidence of breaking and entering having been committed before the fires occurred,” he said.
It was pointed out by Mr Scott that in his experience he hhd often noticed that towns or cities would go for long periods of comparative immunity from big fires, and that then there would be a sequence of unfortunate outbreaks.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24960, 22 August 1946, Page 3
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