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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 4

Comment on what was called a remarkable coincidence was passed at a meeting of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board when the chairman, Mr J. J. Kingston, reported how a house in One Tree Hill had a fire this month bn the same date and the same minute as one which occurred at the same house in 1932. Mr Kingston said six years ago at 10 a.m. on August 22 the brigade had been called to the house to extinguish a fire which had been caused by the site's rays focussing through the medallion of a leadlight window* on to the top of a curtain. At 10 a.m. on August 22 of this year another fire had broken out through exactly the same cause. The fact that no fire had occurred in the intervening years was probably because the sun had been hidden behind clouds at that moment or because there had been some different arrangement of the window.