DANGER IN CELLULOID.
LIABILITY TO FIRE. P/RTGADESMAN URGES BETTER CONTROL. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Mar. 1. In his presidential address to the fire brigades conference, Superintendent Warner dealt with the danger of celluloid: stores, advocating the introduction, as in England, of drastic regulations for the control, sale and storage of celluloid. He recounted a Christchurch case of fire in a fancy goods shop where celluloid goods were stored. The occupier struck a match, when at once an explosion occurred. An English commission had found that celluloid was highly inflammable, giving off also poisonous fumes. He thought the time had arrived for the same measure of control here as in England, particularly. in prohibiting the sale of toy cinematograph films to •children, the clanger of which was sadly demonstrated in Christchurch by two deaths. Mr Warner added that the films used' in public entertainments were non-inflammable, having been put through a special process
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 March 1926, Page 5
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153DANGER IN CELLULOID. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 March 1926, Page 5
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