The cause of the 48 actual fires in Wanganui during the past year are listed as under:- —Plumber’s blow lamps 1, boiling tar 1, boiling fat on stove 1, careless use of matches 8, earless use of candles 2, cigarette smoking 4, crackers in window igniting 1, fusing of electric wires 5, hot ashes 1, overflow of petrol into hot exhaust 2, overheated exhaust pipe J, sparks from copper fires 5, sparks from furnaces 2, spark from cigarette coming into contact with floor stain .1, spirit lamp catching fire 1, switch left on electric iron 1, water coming in contact with ‘lime 2, unknown 8 / w
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19864, 11 June 1927, Page 6
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