A SCHOOL BURNED.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ; Waimate, Wednesday. A school at Kapua, about five miles from here, was burned down about eight o'clock on Monday evening. Two settlers : driving past saw the flames and found the woodshed attached to the school, on fire. There was no wate.. available, and the fire soon spread to the school itself, which was destroyed, and all its contents. A teacher's residence of two rooms attached to the school was also burned, but everything the roomi. confined was saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. The school broke up on Friday, and no one was at the school on the day of the fire. There had been a service in the building on Sunday evening.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12147, 18 December 1902, Page 5
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