FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
STRICTER SPECIFICATIONS URGED
(By Telegraph—Press Association:) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.-' The annual conference of ■ the New Zealand branch of the Fire Engineers' I Institute of Great Britain opened today, when the new president, Superintendent W. H. Barnard, of Palmerston North, was installed in office. > A motion was carried calling the attention of the Government to the urgent need for strict specifications governing the construction of hand chemical fire extinguishers. It was stated that some of the extinguishers on the market were definitely dangerous and did more harm.than good.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 10
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