Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES A WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1900 Notes and Comments.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22216, 22 March 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TE AROHA TIMES A WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1900 Notes and Comments.

During the past' few weeks this district lias been visited by that destroyer which is commonly known as the fire fiend. Isfo less than three dwellings owned by residents were' reduced to ashes.- ' When the alarm of fire is sounded, whether it be echoed by vocal power or tingled from our newly erected bell, it matters not which, one and all rush in a frantic 'state- to the scene of the conflagration ; to what ? gaze upon the flames towering heavenward as they journey on their voyage of destruction from plank to plank, house to house', till every board within its reach has passed through the fiery furnace. Only the other even’vg'a vain.hie property of some 8 or 10 ro mis was destroyed in the pres'-nco of a large number of young men. When the fire was first

Wanted A Fire Brigade

cffscovei oil a bucket luigage, sj’stematically worked, may have saved the building. We liavo repeatedly drawn attention to tbo urgent need of a Fire i>riga<to —in —t-V-is—d-inti'iet. NoW that /Fie long, talked:of (water-supply is an accomplished fact,, .and the water is rushing through the mains, steps should immediately be taken towards forming and equpping a brigade with the latest appliances. Should a five start on either-sido-of Wliitaker-street at present, with a favorable wind- to. assist it in its work of destruction, the result would be appalling.