TRAM-CAR COMEDY
BOY’S COAT TAKES FIRE. .... PHOSPHORUS IN POCKET. ■ - AUCKLAND', July 24. A small piece of phosphorus was the cause of a little comedy in a tramcar at the Richmond Road> terminus Grey L#nn yesterday afternoon. Two schoolboys were seated in the tram and one of them placed the phosphorus in his companion’s coat pocket.’ The humid" atmosphere set the substance on fire and a spiral of dense black smoke arose and passed through a window in the car. |A passenger quickly tore the burning coat off the boy. In the meantime however a pedestrian had broicen a street alarm box ; and the. siren of the], fjre engine attracted the usual croft'd- Several residents of the vicinity Had. already hastened to the scene with buckets -.of .. water, ’and. the fire, ip, the coat was quickly .Extinguished. Apportion of the interior, of the tram received a‘ liberal wetting during the, ■process/. '.'7 . .. .. : A constable hurried to the source’ of tlie commotion, apeL the, comedy was ended by him admonishing a tearful hoy. 7 '• ■ •*.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1931, Page 2
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172TRAM-CAR COMEDY Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1931, Page 2
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