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Description

The Royal Hotel fire happened during the middle of the day. The fire also caused considerable damage to adjoining shops. Edward Hupe, porter at the hotel, was arrested on a charge of attempting to burn it down.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Fi 9
Date
March 17, 1909
Digitisation ID
2007N_Fi9_A-E_0306
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
activities and events,
bicycle,
crowd,
disaster,
event,
flames,
horse,
palmerston north,
photographs,
smoke,
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