FIFTH FIRE AT RACECOURSE
WAIPUKURAU JOCKEY CLUB . ARSON SUSPECTED Waipukurau, Aug. 1. The fifth fire at the Waipukurau Jockey Club’s racecourse since December of 1939 occurred last night. It was about midnight when a stack containing between nine and ten tons of baled hay caught fire, and was so well alight before it was observed that it was not even worth while to call the fire brigade. This is the fifth of a series of fires which have happened at the racecourse. The totalisator house, the grandstand and another haystack were completely destroyed, and the women’s cloakroom was the scene of an outbreak which was stopped in time. In March of this year, the secretary of the jockey club, Mr F. A. G. Dunn, offered a reward of £SO to any person giving information that would lead to a conviction for arson in connection with the series of fires which the club suspected were not altogether straight-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 2 August 1941, Page 5
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