FALSE FIRE ALARMS.
MOVE TO CATCH OFFENDERS. CALL-CHECKING SCHEME. (By Telegraph.—press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. In the near future people who give false alarms of fire by telephone will run a considerable risk of apprehension and prosecution, the Wellington Fire Board having decided to-day f o adopt a system for checking all fire alarms received by telephone. Members of the board stated that the annual cost of attending malicious alarms was considerable and tu the Post and Telegraph Department was prepared to co-operate in the checking of calls and the catching of offenders at a small cost, the scheme was adopted unanimously. The superintendent, Mr. C. A. Woolley, estimated that it wju'.d not be necessary to check more than .".00 calls a-ytrar at a oost of approximately £15, plus £13 10/ for an additional telephone line.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 17
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135FALSE FIRE ALARMS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 17
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