HIGH SCHOOL ABLAZE
DARGAVILLE'S LOSS
FLAMES BEYOND CONTROL
(By Telecraph—Press Association.)
DARGAVILLE, This Day
Fanned by a westerly breeze a fire of unknown origin swept through the secondary department of the Dargaville District High School about"6.so o'clock last evening, and before the : brigade could reach the scene the building was a roaring inferno quite beyond : any possibility of salvation. Within 45 minutes of the outbreak only gaunt and blackened uprights were left stand, ing out against the vivid red furnace Valued, at £10,000, the school, which was erected in 1925 and added to since, was of wood and corrugated iron throughout, and was the best'and most up-to-date district high school north of Auckland. - , i( _ Arrangements for carrying on the tuition of the 150 pupils in other buildings in the town are being made.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 13
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