FIRE PLANT FAILS
A WELLINGTON BLAZE
COUNCIL INVESTIGATION
Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. In a report on the produce markets j fire, about the handling of which there j has been some controversy, the city | engineer recommended that the council j allow him to investigate the hydrants, ! with a view to improving them. ; The Mayor and other councillors expressed dissatisfaction, and wanted a j demonstration. The speakers con- ; sidered that they had a right to be | assured on the matter. One councillor said the experiment was not enough. There had been something wrong in connection with : the fire. The efficiency of the appliI ances had been lauded, yet they failed, ! and the whole thing was completely out of the control of the brigade, j Eventually the council decided to call : for a demonstration, and also to make J a searching inquiry into all the circumstances of the fire.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 583, 8 February 1929, Page 16
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147FIRE PLANT FAILS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 583, 8 February 1929, Page 16
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