FALSE FIRE ALARM
Youth To Pav £75 f.V Z. Press Association)
HAMILTON, November 7. A youth who gave a false fire alarm which called 17 men from their beds early yesterday morning, was fined £5O and ordered to make £25 restitution by Mr Stewart Hardy, S.M., today. The youth, Paul Neil Ansin, aged 17, a pastrycook, pleaded guilty to giving a false alarm to a fire to the deputy-chief fire officer of the Matamata Volunteer Fire Brigade. Sergeant I. C. Paterson said that when Ansin rang the bridgade he gave a false name.
Seventeen men from the Matamata Fire Brigade and two milk-tankers from the New Zealand Dairy Company’s plant at Waharoa were called out. When it was discovered it was a false alarm, the telephone exchange traced the call.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 3
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130FALSE FIRE ALARM Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 3
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