SUNDAY’S FIRE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 118, 11 July 1911, Page 6

SUNDAY’S FIRE

NEW PLYMOUTH VIEWS

The following paragraphs regarding Sunday’s lire are from the New Plymouth “News”:— Stratford is becoming notorious for liras, but no public inquiry has been held into any of the several serious conflagrations which, have occurred there since Christmas.

Board is at. a’premium at Stratford, and another tire or two must make things very awkward for the single men and 'women who have gone there from other parts. It may end, of course, in a marriage and building byom, but it is more probable that workers will look up towns where good board is more easily obtainable. The position was fairly acute even before the Trocadoro fire. With that very large institution destroyed, and now another fairly spacious boardinghouse also, it is hard to see how these folk are to be housed, for wo are given to understand that the hotels have their full quota. it is reported that when the Stratford Fire Brigade arrived at the scone of the fire at Mrs Craig’s boardinghouse in the early honys, of Sunday morning sonic minutes were lost before the firemen, could find the fireplug, • which iiad become covered up. In New Plymouth a visit of inspection of tiio fire-plugs is part of the firemen’s drill, and if any plug is found to have become hidden lay road metal or otherwise the 1 borough authorities are very cmicklv told about it.