Tyre on Fire in Street. While walking down the street the other night, a visitor to Opotiki \vas surprised to observe what he took fo be a light like a neon sign running around the tyre of a ear parked in Main Streetw He decided to investigate and when he got to the car he discovered that flame was running up the tread right under the mudguard. With the aid of a heavy paper he was carrying he beat the fire out! but not before it had burned a hole avcll into the rubber near the kerbing, against which the tyre was resting. Investigations showed that a match had been thrown down by someone right against the tyre which had caught fire at pavement level.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 125, 19 February 1940, Page 5
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