FIRE AT MASTERTON

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 8

FIRE AT MASTERTON

INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. PSESS ASSOCIATION. MASTERTON, July 9. At about 2 o'clock tills morning a firo broke out in tho totalisator bouse at the Opaki racecourse and quickly spread to tho inside grandstand, themco making a clean sweep of tho tea kiosk, the secretary’s office, press office, weighing-in room, jockeys’ room, and loose-boxes, only leaving the people’s stand and judge’s box standing. The indications point to incendiarism, as there is. evidence of fire having been lit in the people's stand and laving gono out. Ono of the doors of tho building had been burst open, and tho lire set inside, but fortunately it bad gono out after doing .a little damage. The buildings destroyed are valued at £4OOO and covered by an insurance of £ISOO. Tho police have tho matter in band. The fire was discovered shortly after'it started by an Opaki resident, W. Compton. THE AUCKLAND FIRE. THE CAMPBELL AND EHRENFEIED COMPANY, LTD. I am clad to inform yon that on opening the TANN’S SAFE belonging to Sir Arthur Myers after the recent fire in the Strand Arcade, I found all his papers intact and Tinho-rmcd by fire. The outside walls of the Safe showed signs of the exposure to the fir© to which they bad boon subjected, but nothing penetrated inside. Yours faithfully (Signed) Leo. M. Mvers. Sargood, Son and Ewen, Ltd., Sole Agents. ■ *