FALSE FIRE ALARMS
A TRAP FOR PERPETRATORS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 29. In the near future people who give malicious fire alarms by telephone will run considerable risk of apprehension and of prosecution. The Wellington Fire Board decided to-day to adopt a system for the checking of all fire alarms received by telephone. Members of the board stated that the annual cost of attending malicious alarms was considerable, and as the Post and Telegraph Department was prepared to co-operate in the checking of calls and the catching of offenders at a small cost, the scheme was adopted unanimously. Superintendent C. A. Woolley estimated that it would not be necessary to check more than 300 calls a year, at a cost of approximately £ls, pins £l3 10s for an additional telephone. line.
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Evening Star, Issue 22560, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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133FALSE FIRE ALARMS Evening Star, Issue 22560, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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