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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 January 1923, Page 8

For a short time the new Parliament Buildings at Ottawa were threatened with destruction by a fire which started m a similar place to that which destroyed the building in 1916. Workmen employed in the Commons reading room were using gasoline on the rubber floor or the room. A match lying on the floor was scraped into flame by a workman's boot, and in an instant'the whole air was a mass of flames. The papers on the racks caught before the hre was extinguished, and a good many* of them were destroyed. The damage' was otherwise slight. °":