FIRE LOSSES
DURING PAST YEAR. Losses by tire in New Zealand durin,r ID3I .amounted to £1,292,1)9J, as compared with £l,U>9,fi9l lor Lie previous year, according to the report oi the Imped or of Eire Brigades, Air R. Uiiling-Butcher, which was presented to parliament yesterday afternoon. These figures represent tlie total payments made by insurance companies, plus a percentage for fire loss not covered by insurance. The figures foi 1931 do not include any lire loss caused directly or indirectly by the Hawke s Hay earthquake, but they do include an amount of approximately £100,900 .for fires which occurred in the district during the period following the earthquake when the water supply and the fire-fighting arrangements were not ui operation. “Nearly 50 per cent, of all fires m New Zealand,” said Air Girling-Butch-er, “arise from some- form of c-areless-ness in connection with cooking and heating fires.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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145FIRE LOSSES Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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