The enormous increase in the cost of imported fre-resisting building materials and fire appliances encour fayed local firms to manufacture substitutes and the Inspection Branch was called upon to test numerous pro-duets for their fre-resistive qualities. the results of which were communi caled to the Building Surveyor for his information. Fire-resisting solu tions. and paints were also. mantfuetured locally and tested by. the Brigade, "One of the greatest strides. made was the local manufacture of standard _sprinkler-head. which stood up to the tests so satisfactorily: that samples were forwarded to England by the manufacturer with a view securing offal recognition of the In a building of wood construction Used for the manufacture of spectacle frames in Lane 972, Ferry Road. The fire spread very rapidly and by the time the first machine arrived a block of about 200 square yards of flimsy. Infammable structures. including a urge weaving mill, was a mass of flames. The. chatted bodies of a Chinese woman and a child were Found underneath the debris, and another woman and child" were severely burned.
Changes in the S.F.B. stam during the year Included three foreign appolniments, seven of Chinese cadets ud. 10G of Chinese firemen. Four foreigners vesigned during the one was invalided and one Brigade, Two members of the nese staff, one with 25 years' service and. the other with seventeen, also led during the year
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