SEVERAL SMALL FIRES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18942, 13 February 1925, Page 8

SEVERAL SMALL FIRES.

BUSY DAY FOR BRIGADES. MINOR DAMAGE SUSTAINED. A number of small fires occurred in tha city and suburbs yesterday. Slight damage was done to the partition wall between the kitchen and a bedroom o£ a seven-roomed house at 650, Manukau Road, One Tree Hill, owned and occupied by Mr. H. Prince, at 4.10 o'clock yesterday morning. The fire was extinguished by the Romuera and Parnell Brigades. The Parnell and City Brigades answered a call to a house at 10, Bath Street, owned by Mrs. M. Grace, and occupied by Mr. M. Hughes, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Some children playing with a lighted candle in the scrim tent erected to shade them from the sun had set fire to the scrim. No damage was done. The City Brigade answered a call to a burning bamboo bush on a vacant section in Carlton Goro Road at 2.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. No damage was done. The City and Parnell Brigades were railed yesterday morning to Judge's Bay, Parnell, where a grass fire had broken out on Church property overlooking the cliff at the bottom of St. Stephen's Avenue. Another grass fire, which was endangering some houses in Edendale Road, resulted in a call to tho Mount Albert Brigade. No damage was done in either case.