SERIOUS FIRE HAZARDS
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Guy Fawkes Night at Wellington EXTREME MEASURES URGED
, (By Telegrapb-
WELLINGTON, Last Night. Suggestions th'at either the discharge of fireworks should be .totally prohibited, as was done in some cities, or allefxiatively that special areaa : be set aside in each district where (3u;| "Fawkes celebrations could be held in safety were • by the Su'perinte,ndent of the Gentral Fire' Brigade, Mr C. A. Wooliey, in a report submitted to the Wellington Fire Board. Between 7 p.m-. and midnight," 45 calls were received. The minimum cost of eaeh was £5, and Mr Woolley pointed dut that, even with a special orgunisatio.n ' and the precautions adopt■ed, the 'brigade would have been in serious aiveulties had a serious outbrcak'oceurred in" the city. He was satasiicd that • nothing shoft of cxtreme measures such as he suggested would reduce; the fire hazard to a reasonable limit. -He proposed to hold a conference with tbe Government lnspector of Fire Brigades and others.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 48, 19 November 1937, Page 6
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