THE LATE FIRE AT TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1357, 12 March 1881, Page 3

THE LATE FIRE AT TE AWAMUTU.

TO THE EDITOR Sir,-— The facetious remarks of your own correspondent are not strictly in accordance with facts iv reference to the late fire, still, a certain poetical license is allowable on a subject which so evidently calls for jocularity. A certain -writer tells us that Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, so that precedent was furnished to suit this occasion. To those who attended and assisted mantully to extinguish the fire, the alarms set up by the canine race aforesaid, did not" prove so distracting, their efforts being solely directed to avert an impending calamity from a family and settlement : as it appears pretty sure that if the fire had once obtained the mastery of the hotel, a large portion of the township, must in all probability, have shared a like fate. I am also credibly informed that the New Zealand Insurance Co. have had a fireladder and hand engine placed with their agent in Te Awamutu at least a year which fact was made known to the proprietors of the two hotels, who. being the only occupiers in the township of twostorey buildings, were most likely to require their aid. — I am, &c, Vekitas.