FIRE COMMISSION.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night, At a sitting of the Wool Fires Commission to day, the chief officer of the f.». Rimutaka gave evidence that on examining the wool after the recent fire on board that vessel at London, ho found the fire appeared to have started in the centre of the bales, Oa going into the adjoining hold he found the iron bands of some of the bales quite hot. The wool io the hold where the fire occurred was dry outside when shipped at Wellington. Evidence was also given by G. H. Scales, who chartered the batque Pitcairn Tsland, and others, to the effeot that no damp wool was shipped on board that vessel, and that no bales were placid on tho wharf when it was wet, or were rolled through pools o' water on the whmf.
The Commission has adjourned to LylteltoD.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1849, 1 September 1906, Page 2
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147FIRE COMMISSION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1849, 1 September 1906, Page 2
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