FALSE FIRE ALARMS
TWO SISTERS FINED The use 01 the words "Turn out" led to the apprehension of two sisters. Phyllis Haftka (18) and Doris Haftka (19) on a charge of giving a false (ire alarm in Lower Halt. In the Magistrate's Court they were each fined £2.< 10/-, ✓ It was stated in evidence that two telephone cails. within five minutes of each other, w« re made to the Lower Hint Fire Brigade on January 13 by women who said there was a Rre mar Holland Street. The first call was recognised as a hoax, ami after the second one the superintendent, whose suspicions were aroused by the use of a lire brigade term. "Turn out," by the caller, wont to the area in a car and ascertained there was no lire. The sisters, when Interviewed later, admitted making the calls, stating that iheir reason for doing so was because one of the firemen had asked them to do so.
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Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 44, 30 April 1947, Page 11
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