FEWER FIRES

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3676, 21 March 1932, Page 6

FEWER FIRES

RETURN FOlt JBLJSVKN MONTHS VALUE OF, INQUESTS (Per P/ess -A/*oeiation > Wellington, Mu-rch 20. Favourable- comment was made by members of tlie Wellington lire Hoard at tlie very appreciable drop in the number of fires ibr the eleven liiontfTs ended February 20, as compared "with the number for the corresponding period of bust year. “I think it is most satisfactory to see this drop in the figures,” said Mr if. Marks. “Usually in such hard times the 'number of fires increase dealt -they?”.

“You forget we hold inquests lion?.” said Mr S. S. Dean. “Well, l don’t knoav. but I think the insurance companies should pay a. bit more towards the expense pf the hoard,” said Mr Marks, jokingly. The return showed that there was a- total of 753 tiro calls for the past eleven months as compared witlj ”1 ” for the con-responding period of the previous year. Of these 211 "ere properly fires, *1 tfiimuev, IS4 gorse, grass and rubbish. There w ere 297 false alarms, comprising IS) justifiable and 102 malicious, as against 343, 132 justifiable and . 211 111!) licious, last year.

In Tel irunrv there wore 29 actual fires, including 15 affecting property, and 20 false alarms, 11 of which were justifiable.