FIRE AT SCHOOL
Two Rooms Gutted (N.Z. Preu Association) WELLINGTON, April 25. Fire gutted two rooms and damaged four others at the Randwick School, Lower Hutt, today. Police and fire officers suspect the fire might have been lit deliberately. Boys were seen in the school yard earlier in the afternoon. Someone had removed the handles from two taps in the yard. Police who were passing in a patrol car found one of the doors open when they went to investigate the smoke. The brigade was called to the school at 4.8 p.m. The Chief Fire Officer (Mr I. J. Walker) said the two rooms in the middle of the school block were blazing when the brigade arrived. Firemen controlled the fire in about 15 minutes but they were at the scene for two hours extinguishing small outbreaks in the ceiling.
The headmaster, Mr L. W. Burgess, said about 140 pupils attended the school.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31043, 26 April 1966, Page 18
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