BOYS SET FIRE TO SCHOOL
Cupboard And Wall Damaged (New Zealand Press Association) HASTINGS, December 2. Two small boys late yesterday afternoon set fire to a school being built in Oliphant road, Hastings. The boys, who are brothers, aged seven and five, piled paper in a cupboard under a bench in one of the classrooms and set it alight. The Hastings Fire Brigade was called at 5.47 p.m. Damage was confined to the cupboard and a section of the wall. The Chief Fire Officer (Mr L. R. G. Harlen) discovered that the boys had started the fire. He said they told him they did not know why they did it They were admonished and sent home. The school under construction is a four-roomed school being built to relieve congestion at the Raureka school. It will be opened next February.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 23
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