SOAKED WITH KEROSENE

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1931, Page 9

SOAKED WITH KEROSENE

FIRE AROUSES SUSPICION

TIMELY ARRIVAL OF BRIGADE.

CHRISTCHURCH BOY GIVES ALARM.

BLAZE FOUND IN EVERY ROOM.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Christchurch, Last Night.

When fire brigadesmen entered a house in Norfolk Street to which they had been called to quell an outbreak of fire this evening, they found evidence which led to the suspicion that the house had been deliberately set on fire. The alarm was given by a boy who called at the house on an errand. When the firemen arrived they found that a fire had been 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 an armchair had been soaked; 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. Not much damage was done. The house was occupied by Robert Thompson Nirrie and owned by Mrs. B. J. Phillips, Christchurch. The house wa£> insured but the furniture was not covered. Nobody was at homo when the outbreak occurred.