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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 5

A demonstration of a neat and effoctiva hand fireJighting weapon, tho " Minimal" Firs Extinguisher, was given on the reclaimed land yesterdav morning. Three tiers of. packing cases filled with a species of shavings and saturated with tar and kerosene wero set alight, and within a few boo, onds a roaring fire, was in progress, When the flames had been given time to obtain a firm hold the little hand 'extinguisher was turned on to tlio firo from a distanco of about sor 6 yards, The extinguisher, in the form of'a tube about two feet long, poured a thin jot on ! to the flames; and the elfcct was instantaneous'.- .The (lames wavered and died away, and by tho timo the jet had played for less than a minute tho fire was over, the bla'ekened and charred : eases remaining whero, a foyr seconds' before, was a furious blaze. Tho tost was generally pronounced a-highly satisfactory-one.

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