KODAK HOUSE FIRE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 13

KODAK HOUSE FIRE

Sir, —In the report which appeared in your newspaper under date January 23, regarding the recent fire which took place in “Kodak House,” Victoria Street, you make the following statement: "The seat of the flames was on the sixth floor, which was occupied by Kodak (Australasia), Pty., Ltd., and contained large quantities of highly-inflammable photographic supplies, which were responsible for the startling rapidly with which the flames spread over the whole of the top floor, etc.”

We would like you to correct this statement in your report, as photographic material is not of such a highly-inflam-mable nature as generally imagined. When a, roll of Kodak film is. unwound and a 1 match applied, the film in its undeveloped state will partly burn, but not be entirely consumed. It is a common error to describe undeveloped photographic material as highly inflammable, and we would like to point out that we were able to demonstrate to the insurance company and to the police authorities the fallacy of this to a certain extent. At the demonstration we gave, the film burnt very slowly (there was no sudden or enormous flare), and eventually went out altogether without the whole of the film being consumed.—We are. etc., KODAK (AUSTRALASIA) PTY., LTD. H. A. BEAUCHAMP, N.Z. General Manager. Wellington, March 4.