SAFETY IN HOTELS.
FIRE ESCAPE PROVISIONS. DECISION AT WELLINGTON. [fll* TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. "Within the next six months owners of wooden hotel buildings in Wellington have to provide each upstairs room with an external iron platform as a means of escape for occupants in the event of fire, according to the decision of the Wellington Licensing Committee. Mr. E. Page, S.M., chairman of thn committee, stated that the committee entertained very definite views that, ropes outside bedrooms and fire escapes, socalled, at the end of passages upstairs were in many cases an inadequate provision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 11
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