FIRE BRIGADE CALLS
Calls received by the; Central Fire. Brigade in July totalled 68; 42 wer« | to actual fires (property 24^ chimneygj 9, gorse, grass, and rubbish 9), »nd M' were false alarms. Of the latter nus* ber 17 were justifiable, and 9- 'wmit malicious. In the four months AprOf May, June, and July, 1931, the calls and fires .were "as follows, the'figure* for the corresponding period last year being , given in parentheses:—-Property, 8S (85); chimneys, 31 (50); gorse, grass, and rubbish, 39 (81); total, 153 (816), False alarms: Justifiable, 51 (55); mMt' cious, 66 <41>| total, 10? (M^
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1931, Page 8
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99FIRE BRIGADE CALLS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1931, Page 8
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