COMPANY’S OBLIGATIONS
Should Take Effective Measures to Prevent Fire SPARKS FROM LOCOMOTIVE TIMBER MILL OUTBREAK a (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, To-day. A statement that it is probable that the fire which occurred at the Morningside timber mill on December 1 was started by a spark from a locomotive engine was made by the coroner, Mr Hunt, S.M. In a finding announced to-day he expressed the opinion that the occupiers of land adjoining the railway should take active and effective measures to protect their property, particularly to allow no dry grass to bo about.
He also commented that the Railway Department had spent £40,000 in experimenting with spark arresters and was installing the newest type of arresters as fast as it could. Ho further pointed out that trains must run and, as apparently the sparks could not be altogether eliminated, the department had the right to expect adjoining property holders to take proper precautions against fire. The timber company in this case had not done so. There was dry grass about and the fire fighting apparatus was apparently not in good order.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 12 July 1935, Page 8
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