JUST IN TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 282, 29 November 1927, Page 8

JUST IN TIME.

EXPENSIVE BLAZE AVEKTBk'

OUTBREAK IX PARI BUILDINGS.

By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Bepntalj

WELLINGTON, thi*

A sixteen-year-old telegraph ana> ger saved the New Zealand Gomiant over £100,000 last night. During tic supper adjournment of the House «f Representatives he knocked at the doer of a private writing room in the oil wooden wing of Parliament with the intention of delivering a telegram to the member for Gisborae, lb> Lysnar, and on entering found papas as the table ablaze. Rushing oat, he gin an alarm, and one of Bellamy's vttef appeared. The pair quickly unqofled a length of hose, the waiter naming don the passage with it, and in a few moments a stream of water was Wag played on the fire. Fortunately tie damage was confined to papers on tls table and the table itself. All the papers were either destroyed or JCtially burned, and a pile of unoparf letters which Mr. Lysnar had reerinl bv the evening mail was i educed ts ashes. The table was deeply dantd. A cigarette had been left in an la tray, and had smouldered away n*H the burning end fell on some notepad which it ignited. Had it not been " the timely arrival of the message* t« probabilities are that the whole wooden wing, which had been partisM renovated during the last recess, won* have been destroyed, since there *"** 4 high wind blowing at the time. Whet the alarm was given, someone broke* glass fire alarm connecting with the fc* station, but it failed to operate, sx4 the brigade did not arrive. The estimated cost of a new stone wing " approximately £150.000.