Dominion’s Fire Losses.
The Superintendent of the Wellington Eire Brigade recntly submitted a schedule to the City Council setting out the estimated losses through fires in the principal cities of the Dominion, together wath a comparison of the losses for the year 1903-08 with the period 1917-22 in the city of Wellington. The figures were as follows :
1917-18; Auckland £18,118; Christ church, £9823; Welingtoo. £14,412 Dunedin C9J2I.
1919-20: Auckland £39,691; Christchurch, £19.306; AVellingimt., £35,201; Dunedin, £7.636. 1929-21; Auckland, £39.61; Christchurch, £92,092; AVellingtcm, £58,848; Dunedin. £39,150. 1921-22: Auckland, £24,776; Christchurch, £]0.933; AVollington £36,600; Dunedin, £18,442. Totals: Auckland. £242,319; Christchurch, £189,224: Wellington, £160,623; Dunedin, £126.147. The lire losses in AVollington from 1903 to 1908 were £319,555, while from 1917 to 1922 they were only £160,623, notwithstanding the fact that in 1922 the value of improvements was eslimat eel at £14,4 17.415, as against only £6,015,802 in 1908. The above losses do not include wharves and shipping, fn connection with the above record (remarks the “Dominion”), it is interesting to record that AVellingtou is the only city whose brigade is not controlled by n file board.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1922, Page 4
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183Dominion’s Fire Losses. Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1922, Page 4
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