FALSE FIRE ALARMS.
FOUR WITHIN SHORT TIME. BOX BROKEN IN EACH CASE. Four malicious false alarms of fire in the city were received withip an hour arid a-half by the City Fire Brigade last evening. Each alarm was given by breaking a box. The shrill note of the engine's siren as the machine raced four times through the city attracted the notice of large numbers of people who hastened to the scenes of the supposed fires.
The first call was at 8.51 <o Beach Road, (hen at 9.24 (o the old railway crossing in Quay Street West, »t 9.37 to the corner of High Street and Chancery Street, and finally, at 9.58, to the intersection of Symonds Street and Airedale Street.
A genuine alarm was received within the same period to Ireland Street, College Hill, where one room of a six-roonied house was slightly damaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20725, 19 November 1930, Page 10
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