FIRES IN NEW ZEALAND.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REASON. I — ! CAPTAIN HUGO S OFINION. Telegraph.—(Jwo Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. Speaking at the Fire Brigade's smoke : concert at Petone last night. Captain Hugo, Chief Inspector of Fire Brigades, i said there was no doubt that more damage was done through tire in the New World than in the Old. The reason, he 1 said, was physcliological. Colonists possessed a certain spirit of self-reliance, inherited from their ancestors, and ex- . hibited a tendency to take le?s care ol property and goods than va? customary in an old country. The damage done by fires in New Zea- j land had been attributed to the incili- j jciency of brigades, but this was not the; case. It was due rather to the frequency I of fires, which could be traced to llimsy j wooden walls, covered with scrim and ! paper, so common in New Zealand houses.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 91, 19 April 1927, Page 3
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