BLAZE IN ARMORY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12397, 9 November 1934, Page 6

BLAZE IN ARMORY.

CHRISTCHURCH ,110 VS HIGH SCHOOL 1N CENDIARISM SUSPECTED. FIVE HUNDRED RIFLES INSIDE (Press Association! CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 8. - A report furnished 1 to the police indicates that an attempt was made to burn down the ‘armory at Christy .hurcli Boys’ High School early yesterday morning. Shortly before 6 o'clock, a grounds, man, when going to collect horses, passed a corner of the armory, which i.s a wooden shod. At that time there was no • sign of tire. When ho returned a quarter of’ an hour later, smoko wasi issuing from the armory in which are stored 500 rifles values! it several thousand pounds. The groundsman and caretaker with r.lie aid of a hose, were able to •iubdue the flames, which were breaking through the floor iu three places. Color is lent to tile theory that someone tried to burn down the building by the presence under tue floor of piled-up heaps of burning debris. Following the tire, a report was miTeut iliat the armory bad been first' broken into and several rifles Ktol on, but this is denied by the school authorities. Tho building wa's locked when the groundsman arrived, and ho broke a window to yet in. The blaze started under the flooring near one <*': iho doors and broke through Hie boards in three places, and was found just in. time. There was a pile of material 'bunted under the damaged boards. As the building C on piles, a hose could be brought into iilay und-oriicafJi. Protect yourself against loss, by fire by insuring with the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd.— Lissant- Clayton *