£110 A MINUTE.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 September 1919, Page 3

£llO A MINUTE.

Every time the clock ticked last Yea!‘ Pl’oDol'fy I'o the value of nine dollars went up in flame and smoke, says a San Francisco paper. Reduced to its briefest period in point ‘of time, that represents the fire loss in the United States for 118. Carried througll longer periods, the loss was at the rate of 554 dollars a minute, 33,240 dollars an ho'tlr, and nearly 800,000 dollars a day. The total loss for this year,’ according to the tabulation made by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, was 291,000,000 do]lars.