FIREMEN'S CONFERENCE.
PREVALENCE OF FIRES.
[Pee United Press Association.]
AUCKLAND, March 9. Speaking at the Fire Brigades Conference, Captain Hugo, Government Fire Inspector, referred to the extraordinary prevalence of fires in Now Zealand. In Wellington, with a population of 60,000, there were 139 fires during tho twelve months ended March last* According to Old World statistics, a city of 300,030 people would have no more fires, while in a European town of 60,000 under twenty-three fires would be expected. There was something wrong. He attributed the execss of fires in the Dominion not so much to incendiarism as to carelessness engendered by knowkdgo that fires did not mean a loss. Ho strongly commented upon overinsurance.
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Evening Star, Issue 14003, 9 March 1909, Page 4
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115FIREMEN'S CONFERENCE. Evening Star, Issue 14003, 9 March 1909, Page 4
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