DOMINION’S FIRE LOSSES

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3924, 28 March 1929, Page 2

DOMINION’S FIRE LOSSES

OVER ONE AND A-HALF MILLIONS LAST YEAR. Reference to the huge fire loss of New Zealand was made by Inspector T. H. Hugo at the'annual reunion of the M'asterton Fire Brigade on Tuesday night. For the year. ended December last, lie said, the loss would be well over one and a lialf millions. What was being done to reduce it? he asked. Three years ago, he considered it necessary to make very incisive criticism of the United .Fire Brigades Association in consequence of its manner of eaiTying out demonstrations. To-day, lie was only too pleased .to testify to the very great improvement made since then iq that respect. The Association and brigades were doing their part. In Hugo proceeded to urge the necessity of business people, who were more closely affected by huge losses than any other part of the eomlmuiiity, to get together wit'll a view to reducing that loss. He added that the United Fire Brigades’ Association was taking a very forward step in the matter, which' he hoped, would bear, fruit. ,