{"id":389099,"date":"2026-04-20T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389099\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:10:18","slug":"investigation-launched-after-early-morning-fire-at-south-taranaki-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389099\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched after early morning fire at South Taranaki hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manutahi Hall, near H\u0101wera, was extensively damaged by a fire early on April 20.<\/p>\n

An investigation is underway to find the cause of an early morning fire at Manutahi Hall, near H\u0101wera in South Taranaki.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency New Zealand was notified of the fire at 2.09am on Monday.<\/p>\n

Crews from New Plymouth, H\u0101wera, P\u0101tea and \u014cpunake attended.<\/p>\n

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\n the building, built in 1911, was \u201cextensively damaged\u201d.\n <\/p>\n

The fire was under control just after 4am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,25346,2245,1866,2079,57236,121619,12898,1743,201421,1304,3180,111,43,139,69,1240,16715,58455],"class_list":{"0":"post-389099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-at","10":"tag-cause","11":"tag-early","12":"tag-find","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-hall","15":"tag-hwera","16":"tag-investigation","17":"tag-launched","18":"tag-manutahi","19":"tag-morning","20":"tag-near","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-south","26":"tag-taranaki","27":"tag-underway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}