pharged. A fire with unusual circumstances was extinguished with practically no damage in King's crescent, opposite Copeland street, Lower Hutt, at about 10 a.m. yesterday. The outbreak occurred in a house, which though occupied, is not yet out of the builders' hands, and was between the roofing iron and the sarking. The only explanation so far suggested as to the cause is that a workman, when fixing the roofing, dropped a match between the iron ancl the sarking, and that someone walking on the roof this morning caused the match to light. The fire was out before the prigado arrived. A resolution was passed at yesterday's meeting of the City Council approving of the Highways Board taking jiver the new Seaview road, Waiwetu, $nd handing back to the Hutt County gkHmeil a portion of Gmeefield xovA,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 15
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