It is stated that fires in costs the nation £120,000,000 a year £40.000.000 for property destroyad, and £80,000,000 spent on largely ineffectual methods of ■■ preventing' fire. In the forty-nine principal cities of Europe there is less thaii 'brie fire annually to every 1000 inhabitants : in the United States the average is four and a, half.. ' '
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 20 February 1909, Page 2
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55Untitled Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 20 February 1909, Page 2
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