TE AUTE COLLEGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14654, 7 March 1918, Page 4

TE AUTE COLLEGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

TEACHERS' RESIDENCE BtTRIs'ED.

(United Pkbss Association.)

T a '-i 4- Ar W?,l pawa» March 6. leAute Maori College,, including the teachers' residence, was burned down about o o'clock this morning The schoolroom was the only building saved., lhe first started ins'-the kitchen, and, the building being old, the fire spread' rapidly. All the students got out saS $'+£" ffey.lost^ co"siderable portion of their effects. The insurances are not, available.

A , . . Napier, March 6. At an early hour this niornino: a lire ST^w at-% ff Ute ' tho g^ea4 part «W^ Ma TrK li6Se buildlQg being deTh a-™-.™the kitchen, and in two hours the buildings, which were of wood were burned to the ground. The main\ufl£ m g , the headmaster's residence and a, number of outbuildings were kl? destroyed with the excfption of a quat' tity of furniture from the headmaster's and £1000 m the Royal Exchange. hnm« ? UPIS havo been sent to their homes for the present, but temporarySlfn^ cmc"ts. for accommodation will be made m a fortnight V. I*, A™° College was founded in 1872' ?7 t- c?" Archdeacon Williams, and is administered by a board of trustees •It occupied a splendid situation on the" crest of a small hill, and was an ex-" tremely picturesque old building. The round leAute. This was granted tothe school partly by Sir George &Jy*