TIMELY DISCOVERY
ATTEMPT TO BURN SHOP
A SLEEPER AWAKES
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) : HA WEE A, This Day.
Suspicions of attempted incendiarism, are reported from Opunake, where at about 5 a.m. on Monday a man -was awakened by the smell of burning and found a motor-tire packed with; paper burning beneath a grocer's shop next door. Prompt action with a bucket extinguished the blaze, . "'.' . , , The timely,discovery averted-a.disas-trous fire, which, it. is thought, would have destroyed completely a block of wood buildings in the centre of th« town if given a start. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 8
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90TIMELY DISCOVERY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 8
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