Inspector Shearman on Fire Prevention.
[By Telegraph. {Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland. This Day. In a letter which Inspector Shearman has addressed to tho Insurance Association, with a view to co-oporating with thorn in tho suppression of inoendiarism and arson, he points out that under the present system the honost insurer is practically paying for the dishonest. Ho urges:— (l) Reduction of insurances to from one-third to one-half of the total risk ; (2) strioter inspection of varying stocks ; and (3) suggests extra risk for use of wax matches, colonial ovens, and flooring joists going through into the chimney. Sovoral cases have come to Inspector Shearman'o knowledge in tho South, whero fires woro occasioned through wax matches being trodden upon in corridors where cocanut matting was laid down.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1887, Page 2
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