FIRES AT HOWICK
TWO MEN ADMIT ARSON By Telegrupn—Brass Association AUCKLAND, April 12. A plea of guilty of sitting fire to the Howick School on January 31 and also the house of Maurice Dunbar at Howick was entered by Vernon Albert Smallman, aged 20, a farm labourer in the Otahuhu Magistrate’s Court this morning.
The police staid that the accused made a statement admitting that he set fire to a pile of pine needles under the school building.
The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence in both charges on bail of £l5O.
William Henry Charles Roxborough, a storeman, aged 22, and lan Murdoch Mcßae, farm assistant, aged 20, were charged with setting fire to the pavilion at the Howick tennis courts. Roxborough pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. Mcßae pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. Bail of £lOO each was allowed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20700, 13 April 1937, Page 6
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