FIRE AT UNEMPLOYMENT CAMP
COMMUNITY HALL DAMAGED (By Telegraph—Preaß Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, This Day; A fire on Sunday afternoon destroyed the dining loom of the community hall at Makowhai unemployment .camp, near Sandon. The contents, including a piano .and a wireless set, were also lost. A motor car, owned byW. (Jenkins, deputy overseer, which was parked close to the hall, was destroyed. The outbreak, which occurred while the camp sports were in progress some distance away was stemed by a bucket brigade, which saved adjacent hutments. The car, piano, and wireless were uninsured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 March 1933, Page 4
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