ONLOOKERS HOSED
First Demonstration of Steam Fire-Engine More than one old-timer has mourned the passing of the practical joke. We have apparently grown in dignity since the days of tne first steam fire-engine. It ie related that when the Fire Brigade was demonstrating the latest in fire-fighting apparatus at the racecourse they pumped the racecourse lake almost dry. About the edges, anyway, all was thick mud. Everyone was gathered on the shores of the lake ' watching the demonstration. Some imp of misehief prompted the man. on the hose to shower tho onlookere. There was a wild scramble to escape the . falling shower, and many people, in their anxiety to escape a wetting, stepped into the mud of the lake right over their ankle-tops. But those, onr grandfathers tell us, wero the "good old days."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 45 (Supplement)
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134ONLOOKERS HOSED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 45 (Supplement)
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