IT WAS A CEILING
UNUSUAL FIRE ALARM When the pungent odour of tar permeated the atmosphere in the vicinity of the Empire Theatre last night two women considered it was time to inform the New Plymouth Fire Brigade. "H'm!" thought the firemen. "Ceilings!" So a button was pressed to clear the way by starting t.he siren at the corner of Devon and Liardet Streets, and the station staff. remembering a fire in the theatre some years ago, prepared itself for the worst. Jumping from the engine, the men searched the theatre and found nothing. They investigated the buildings at the back— and found nothing. But it was a ceiling, after all. So low were the clouds and so torpid the atmosphere that the odour from the gasworks in Molesworth Street was being wafted as far as Devon Street.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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138IT WAS A CEILING Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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