FIRE-FIGHTING.
DEMONSTRATION A FIASCO. OPENING OF NEW STATION. WELLINGTON, this day. A new fire brigade station, the second of a chain being erected by the Wellington Fire Board, was officially opened yesterday at Brooklyn. The demonstration of efficiency was not exactly a success. The fire engine, dashed from the station in good style, but failed to retnjrn and squirt water around, u everyone was expecting, until some time had elapsed, when the machine was seen struggling back up the hill from Happy Valley. The clutch was slipping, a defect which would greatly handicap firefighting in the hill suburb.
Sir Maui* Pomare, acting-Minister of Internal Affairs, represented the Government, and. in a speech he returned to the subject of fire losses in the Dominion. emphasising the need of greater care. He said the loss had increased from 12/11 in 1922 to 18/3 in 1927 per capita, and the estimated loss last year was £1,331/>OS. In Canada the loss had receded from 2.>/6 in 1922 to 13/ in 1927; in the United States from 20/ in 1925 to 14/ in 1927, and in Great Britain from 6/2 in 1923 to 3/31 in 1927.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 162, 11 July 1928, Page 8
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