The chief engineer of the Hastings Fire Brigade (Mr. A. Leipst) has ovolvcd a schomo (writes our Hastings correspondent) whereby a small pump attachment to the lire-box of tho steam iiro engine can spray the furnaco with koroscno from tlio moment tho lire is kindled until arrival oil. the scene of tho liro. This will obviate tho necessity for having a bottle of kerosene- standing beside tho ongiuo, which proved so unsatisfactory on tho occasion of tho recent firo behind Station Street. Mr. Leinst claims that steam will bo up before the brigade lias tiio hose ready in tho ccutro of tho town.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 475, 6 April 1909, Page 4
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