GONE UP IN SMOKE.
4—_— CITY'S FIRE LOSS: .£83,803.Tho annual report of the City Fit# Brigado Superintendent (Jlr. H. Tait) was made available for publication yesterday. For tho 12 months period ended Jlarch 31, the number of calls to fires or supposed iircs was 2(U, a deprcaso of H as compared with the prcvibus year. Of these, G5 proved to be false alarm* (of which 45 were due to various causes, and 20 were maliciously given); 17 were chimney fires; 41 rubbish and gorsfc firos; and 138 actual fires. Included are fivo to tho wharves and shipping, ami 24 being out. side: the city proper. , Tho following table- show's a compart son lor the two years:—
Estimated loss of property not covered by insurance • 4,205 f Estimated loss of property covered by insuraiioo <9,598 Estimated value of property on which fires occurred 393,848 Total fire loss for tho year ... .£83,803 Of tho total fire loss for tho yoar.Jha" fire which took place at Messrs. Whitcombo and Tombs, on August 7 last, WAS lcspousiblo for <£4-1,282.
1911-12, 1912-13. Actual fires 143 13S , Rubbish and gorso fires 37 44 . Chimney fires 16 . 17 •, False alarms S3 G5 Totals 278 2G1- £
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1744, 8 May 1913, Page 4
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