A BUSY WEEKEND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 4

A BUSY WEEKEND

OUTBREAKS OF FIRE

LITTLE DAMAGE DONE

Fires occurred in several parts of Wellington during the weekend, but little damage was done, units of the Fire Brigade being promptly on the scene in all cases. A geyser of water breaking suddenly from a fire hydrant in Crawford Roa \ at about 10 o'clock on Saturday night gave the crowd which assembled to watch the suppression of a fire in a shed something more than it expected. The outbreak had been dealt with without much damage having been done, and the hose had been disconnected when suddenly the ball in the fire-plug was hurled high in the air and over the rool of a nearby building. Following it. came a jet of water which reached a height at times of up to 75 feet. It played steadily for about half an hour, during which time another incipient outbreak was dealt with by bucket pumps. A plantation of 50,000 young trees was threatened by fire at Vogeltown yesterday afternoon, but was saved after a strenuous fight by firemen and small boys of the neighbourhood. The fire originated on the Vogeltown slope of the belt, and spread rapidly. Firemen from Constable Street were quickly on the scene, and did their best to confine the fire to the scrub. A lengt.i of hose was run from a hydrant several hundred feet below the plantation. The fire was checked before it had spread to the plantation or to houses on the brow of the hill. An outbreak of fire damaged a twostoreyed wooden building in Seatoun Road, owned by Mr. M. F. Bourke of Hataitai, at 9.20 p.m. on Saturday. The ground floor was rented by Mrs. O. Nelson as a double garage. The outbreak was attended to by engines from Constable Street and was confined to the wall on the north side. There were no cars in the garages at the time At 11.3 p.m. yesterday the Central Station received a call to an outbreak at 102 Tinakori Road. Slight damage was done to the weather boards on the north side of the house, which is a wooden one of two storeys, occupied by Mr. J. W. Pearce.