INQUIRY ADJOURNED
Fire At Seacliff (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, January 21. The Seacliff fire commission resumed this morning and after further evidence adjourned till February 22. John Henry Tonkin, who planned the original manual fire-alarm system 30 years ago, said experience showed that rats could eat away all the insulation on the wires for a distance of two feet, «n which case the inflammable rubber and casing of the wires could be left by rats beside the wire. It w;ould only need two wires to be brought together when an arc would result sufficient to cause a tire.
Chief Detective Holmes, in summarizing the police investigation, said he was pleased to inform the commission that at no time did anything arise to suggest that the cause of the lire was malice or neglect on anyone's part. Many cruel rumours started in such cases and all such in the present case had been investigated and disproved. The chairman, Air. Bundle, sitting as coroner, found that all the victims were burnt to death. He extended his sympathy to their relatives.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 100, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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178INQUIRY ADJOURNED Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 100, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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