Wool Fires Commission.
Press Association. Dunedin, September 21. Before the Wool Fires Commission the evidence was chiefly to the effect that the fires were the result of damp wool being shipped, and that low-grade wool was more likely to heat than high grades. One witness said he had known a bale of rabbit skins to be refused by the captain of a ship, owing to heating, and the bale was sent ashore uncomfortably hot. Another deposed that steel hoops on tow might cause fire, and friction might cause sparks to fly.
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Northern Advocate, 21 September 1906, Page 3
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91Wool Fires Commission. Northern Advocate, 21 September 1906, Page 3
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