‘VERY UNSATISFACTORY’

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 1

‘VERY UNSATISFACTORY’

(Special to THE SFS.) CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. “Very unsatisfactory,” were the words used by one official whom a £ SUN man approached this morning ' with a question as to the control of : fire-escapes in Christchurch. In the past it has been largely in I the hands of the City Council, but no definite regulations appear to have been put into effect, and the decision as to the necessity of fire-escapes on buildings has been in the hands of a 8 number of different authorities. Soon, however, all this will be altered, for under the new Fire Brigades Act the Chirstchurch Fire Board will take advantage of the powers 1 given it by making by-laws requiring " owners of buildings to provide such 8 fire-escapes as may be deemed neces- c sary. This will give the board wide t powers, covering buildings of all des- , criptions and will centralise the con- J trol under one authority i

t ago, knocked up the great score of £ 254 not out against Middlesex. i There is a close personal connection between the New Zealand team and e Cambridge by reason of the fact that C Lowry, the New Zealand skipper, was c captain of Cambridge in 1924, and j topped the Varsity batting averages in t that and the previous year. Further- i more, Blundell, a freshman at Cam- r bridge, is i laying for New Zealand. t There may not be any great a significance in this, because it is r unlikely that the ex-Waitaki High School boy could leave his studies \ / to join up with the New Zealand [ team, but if he came to light as a j. bowler, he might very easily be of r great assistance to the team in v this match. Blundell achieved the jremarkable distinction of playing | for Otago while still at school, a and a few weeks ago collected a a harvest of wickets in the annual jCambridge Freshmen’s match. f