INQUIRY IS HELD INTO CIRCUMSTANCES OF FIRE.
Per Press Association. NAPIER, June 2G. At the instigation of the Napier Fire Board, the coroner, Mr A. M. Mowlem, held an inquiry into the circumstances of the fire on January 5 in an unoccupied house in Yautier Street, owned by E. J. Beresford, who had removed his furniture two days before the fire, and on the following day left for Wellington. When the firemen tackled the flames there was a strong smell of kerosene. An investigation disclosed a tin and two bullock bladders, which smelt strongly of kerosene, and kerosenesaturated rags. In the ceiling another bullock’s bladder was found, which burst when it dropped to the floor, and was found to have been filled with kerosene. The coroner returned a verdict that the evidence plainly disclosed the fact
that a tin and at least three bladders of kerosene were placed in the house between 5.30 p.m. on January 3 and 3 a.m. on January 5, but there was so direct evidence to show by whom it was placed within the dwelling.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19107, 27 June 1930, Page 16
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