STORE ABLAZE
FIRED IN FOUR PLACES BURGLARS IN THE BOND. [ Per Press Association. J DUNTDIN, Feb. 28. A call was received at 5.45 o ’cloclL this morning to Murray, Roberts and Co.’s buildings in Liverpool Street, where it was found that three bales of wool and several sacks of wheat wur< on fire. The brigade extinguished the blaze and returned to headquarters, but at 7.19 a.m. another call was received to the satne building, where a fire had broken out in a different place of the store, near the liquor bond. Aftei quelling the outbreak it was discovered that the buildig had been fired in foul places and that burglars had made a hole in a nine-inch wall and gained admittance to the bond. The intruders also ripped large number of sacks coataianing corn, doing considerable damage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 7
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137STORE ABLAZE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 7
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