Table I,-Continued.
Fires during the year 1917.
No. Date. Time. Situation of Fire. No. of Buildings Destroyed, 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. 13 12. 9. 17. 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 17. 11. 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 21. 11. 17. 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