DANGER OF FIRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 7

DANGER OF FIRE

GASFILLED TOY BALLOONS PROHIBITED IN MELBOURNE. "In deciding to have a regulation drafted to prohibit the use in public places of toy balloons fill'ed with inflamimable gas, the Health Commission has taken the course which the circumstances warrant," comments the Melhourae Argus. "Reports submitted to the Gity Oouncil by its officers recently empbasised tlie d'anger of fire and of injury to persons because of the mlisuse of hydrogen-filled balloons at dances held in the Town Hall. iOn two separate occasions a woman has had to be removed to hospital in an ambulance, the council was told, suffering from buxns caused by the actions of 'intoxicated half-wits' in exploding the balloons with liigjhted cigarettes. It may be assumed thait 'intoxicated half-wits' do not confine their dangerous pranks to balloon--bursting to the Town H'all. Such an easy and effective form of wit is too fascinating to be'confined to one place or one occasion. It is a mattei- for regret that toy balloons, which lend a pioturesque touch to dances, may have to disappe'a.r from puhlic halls on account of their dangerous potentialitities; hut the safety of persons and property must he paramount. This restriction, like many other restrictions, is one of the penalities of misbehaviour which the innocent have to suffer with th'e guilty."