Table I,-Continued.
Fires during the year 1917.
No.
Date.
Time.
Situation of Fire.
No. of Buildings Destroyed,
Damage.
Cause.
Remarks.
Wholly.
Partly.
12
3.35 a.m.
No. 99 Jervois Street.
1
$29,000
Medicine which were being dried on the ground floor accidentally catching fire.
13
5.45 p.m.
7.10.17, |11.00 p.m.
Matshed at Dodwell and Co.'s Coal Yard at the West end of Jordan Road,
Kwong Wing Chung Chan dye works
Hok Lo Tsun, Kowloon City,
1
$280
$17,000
Caused by a spark from the kitchen lodging on the roof of the matshed.
Unknown.
14
14.11.17.
8.00 a.m.
No. 55 Ma Tau Kok, Hung Hom,
1
$1,000
Caused by some fat dropping from the sausages that were hanging over the furnace for drying.
15
15.11.17.
1.30 p.m.
The stable and 3 shops at the cross roads near the Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Sheung Shui,
$2,700
Unknown.
16
14.11. 17.
9.30 p.m.
Matshed at Kap Shui Mun,
Several matsheds.
Do.
17
8.20 p.m.
Huts at Ma Sha Ha, Sai Wan Ho,
3 huts,
Do.
18
20.11. 17.
2.15 p.m.
No. 1 Godown at the China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co.'s Godown No. 263 Des Voeux Road West,
1
$60,000
Do.
19
4.00 p.m.
(A block of buildings in course of erection adjoining No. 434 Canton Road,
Nil.
Caused by some workmen carelessly disposing of a lighted match or cigarette end.
2
$2,000
Table I,-Continued.
Fires during the year 1917.
No. of Buildings Destroyed,
No.
Date.
Time.
Situation of Fire.
Damage.
Cause.
Remarks,
Wholly. Partly.
12 25. 7. 17.
3.35 a.m.
No. 99 Jervois Street.
1
29.000
Medicine which were being dried on the ground floor accidentally catching fire.
t
13
14
12. 9. 17.
5.45 p.m.
7.10.17, |11.00 pan,
Matshed at Dodwell and Co.'s Coal Yard at
]
280
Caused by a spark from the kitchen
lodging on the roof of
the
the West end of Jordan Road,
matshed.
J
Kwong Wing Chung Chan dye works }
Hok Lo Tsun, Kowloon City,
17,000
Unknown.
- K 22
15
14.11.17.
16
15.11.17.
17. 14.11. 17.
8,00 a.m.
1.30 p.m.
9.30 p.m.
No. 55 Ma Tau Kok, Hung Hom,
1,000
The stable and 3 shops at the cross roads near t the Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Sheung Shui, į Matshed at Kap Shui Mun,
Several matsheds.i
2.700
Caused by some fat dropping from the sausages that were hanging over the furnace for drying. Unknown.
ļ
Do.
18
19
17. 11. 17.
20.11. 17.
8.20 p.m.
2.15 p.m.
Huts at Ma Sha Ha, Sai Wan Ho,
3 buts,
Do.
2021. 11. 17.
4.00 p.m.
No. 1 Godown at the China Provident. Loan and Mortgage Co.'s Godown No. 263 Des Voeux Road West,
(A block of buildings in course of erection ad- i
joining No. 434 Canton Road,
Nil.
Nil.
60,000
Do.
1
2.000
Caused by some workmen care- lessly disposing of a lighted match or cigarette emi.
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