BLAZE IN HOUSE

Southland Times, Issue 21362, 7 April 1931, Page 8

BLAZE IN HOUSE

ARSON SUSPECTED FURNITURE SOAKED WITH KEROSENE ; FIRE IN EVERY ROOM ‘ ' (Per United Press'Association.) ' Christchurch, April 6. When fire brigadesmen entered a house in ‘ Norfolk . Street this evening to which they had been called, to quell an outbreak of fire they found unmistakable evidence that the house had been ■ deliberately set on fire. The alarm was first given by a boy who called’at the house on an'errand. When the firemen arrived they found that a fire had started in every room' in the house. Beds had been saturated with kerosene which was also spilled on the floor. In the sitting room a mat and armchair had been soaked and both were burning. Clothes hanging on pegs in the hall were soaked and burning.' The timely arrival of the brigade prevented the destruction of the house and not much'damage was done. The house was occupied by Robert Thompson Norrie and owned by Mrs E. J. Phillips, of Christchurch. The house was insured but the furniture was not covered. Nobody was at home when the outbreak occurred.