PALMERSTON FIRE
CARELESSNESS WITH A MATCH. Palmerston North, January 4. At 4.17 p.m. to-day, tho Palmerston North Fire Brigade received a call to tho Working Men’s Club, Cuba Street, where a fire had broken out in a ventilator. Apparently a lighted match had carelessly been thrown into the ventilator, which contained several scraps of paper. Fortunately, however, the flames were extinguished before serious damage was done to tho laths and plaster above the ventilator, and the services of the brigade were not required. This outbreak makes tho second of its kind within tho past few months, tho previous conflagration being of a much more serious nature, when damage to tho extent of several hundred pounds was done to a billiard room. On that occasion tho outbreak was caused by a lighted match missing a spittoon, with tho result that a fire started under tho floor and spread, considerably before tho ilames were noticed.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 85, 5 January 1926, Page 4
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153PALMERSTON FIRE Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 85, 5 January 1926, Page 4
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