UNREHEARSED PROCESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 3

UNREHEARSED PROCESSION.

A FALSE FIRE ALARM. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, Thursday. A false alarm of fire in Whangarei at 11 o'clock las. night was responsible, for one of the best unrehearsed processions that the town has ever seen, due (primarily to the prolonged ringing of the electric lire alarm, which could not Ibe stopped owing to a wire fusing. I Coming down to the business area to investigate the alarm the motor fire I engine was quickly joined by cars, | lorries, motor cycles, ordinary push I bikes, some with policemen mounted Jon them. All lights seemed to be kept purposely as glaring as possible. Headed by the lire engine a circuit was made of the business area at a smart pace, fully "i 0 motor cars following in strict procession. There was something burlesque about the whole business. Reaching the original starting point, somebody said the s.o.s. originated in Kama Road. Speed was clapped on to this point, the slower ones in the procession pulling i out. Here again a blank was drawn, and the disgruntled firemen returned to the fire station, and their enthusiastic band of hangers-on gradually dissipated into the night.