The Hastings police are appealing for information as they investigate a suspicious shed fire that burned on a rural property over the weekend.
The fire, reported to police just after 2.30pm on Sunday, burned a shed that had no power source and the Fire Safety Officer reported there was no reason for the fire to have started on its own.
The shed sat on a large cropping paddock on a property in the northern outskirts of Hastings and had no neighbouring buildings close by.
"The property is just down the road from Splash Planet and due to the warm weather on Sunday it is likely there would have been a number of people in the area" Detective Warren Simpson of the Hawkes Bay CIB said.
"If anyone who was in the area around the time of the fire remembers seeing anything suspicious, we ask that they get in touch with us."