SUSPICIOUS FIRES IN DUNEDIN
BURGLARS ENTER BOND STORE. AFEHWARD3 LIGHT IN SEVERAL PLACES. ’[Per Press Association.! DUNEDIN, Last Night. A call was received at 5.45 o’clock thi s morning to Murray, Roberts and Company’s buildings in Liverpool Street wjiere it was found that three bales of wool and several sacks of wheat were on fire. The brigade extinguished the blaze and returned to headquarters. But at 7.19 a.m. another call was received to the same building where a fire had broken out in a different place of the store near the liquor bond. After quelling the outbreak it was discovered that the building had been fired in four places and that burglars had made a hole in a nineinch wall and gained admittance to the bond. The Intruders also ripped a large number of sacks containing corn doing considerable damage.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3538, 21 February 1927, Page 7
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