FIRE PREVENTION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 November 1931, Page 4

FIRE PREVENTION

WEEK'OF DEMONSTRATlQNS^lB EFFORT TO LES^EN LOSSES STATION OPEN TO PUBLIC A eonferehce was held yesterba I morning between His .Worship ti Mayor, Mr. T. Jackson; Mi*. T. Ani erson (fire brigade supqrintehdent and Mr. A. Bellingham, £eeretary,1 the Rotorua Fire Board, for fhe p| pose of making hrrangemehts .',in ?oj nection with "Fire Prevention Wfeel to he observed throughout the Doiiiii ion from November 23 to Ndveml}! 28. The horough fire iiispector is I be made available for tbe inspectio of business premises. Any speci inspection required will be carrif out by Superintenderit Anderson pe sonally. The Fire Board has decided 1 assist in the cost of advertising "Fii Prevention. Week," .which it is-unde stood will be done by means bf pos brs, setting out the assistance d sired from the public and the actb | ties of the fire brigade during ti j period. A special demonstration of , fi j drill, including -jumping into ti blank'et, loweririg an unconscious pe son from a building,. and a fire tui out, will be given by members the brigade outside the station Haupapa Strebt, bh Thursday, No emher 26, at 8 p.m. The station wili be open nach eve ing during the week for inspecti( by the public and a spare alarm b( will be srtuated in a handy positit so tbat demonstrations of its use mi be given to visitors. .. The superintendeUt, proyiding sui able arrangements can be made, w alsb giVe a lecture tb school childrf on fire prevention.