A report furnished to tho police indicates that an attempt was to burn down the armoury at the Christchurch Boys’ High School early on Wednesday morning. Shortly before 6 o’clock, tho groundsman, when going [to collect sorno horses, passed the corner of tho armoury, which is a wooden shed. At that time there was no sign of fire, but when he returned a quarter of an hour later smoko was issuing from the armoury, in which are stored 500 Tikes valued at several thousand pounds. The groundsman and caretaker, with the aid of a hose, were able to subbduc the dames, which were breaking through the floor in three places. Colour is lent to the theory that someone tried to burn down the building by' the presence under tho floor of piled-up heaps of burning debris.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 262, 9 November 1934, Page 3
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