AnnualReport-1920

No.

Date.

Time.

Situation of Fire.

Table 1, -Continued.

Fires during the year 1920.

No. of Buildings

Destroyed.

Wholly.

Damage.

Cause.

Partly.

$

35 26.7.20. 15.30 hrs. No. 7, Lam Lo Mi, Kowloon City.... 1 300 Dried grass in the cockloft catching fire through some spark flying from the cookhouse. 27 27.7.20. 19.55 No. 140, Des Voeux Road Central........ 1 7,000 Unknown. 28 1.8.20. 19.49 No. 119, Bonham Strand East 1 18,000 Unknown. 29 6.8.20. 3.10 No. 105, Shanghai Street 1 1,000 Overheating of a drying kiln. 30 11.8.20. 6.30 No. 82, Wing Lok Street 1 17,000 Unknown. 31 21.9.20. 18.30 No. 62, Main Street, Kowloon City and other buildings 12 LO 2 40,900 32 27.9.20. 1.00 + No. 98, Queen's Road West 1 2,300 A kerosine oil lamp falling down to the ground and exploding. 33 28.9.20. 12.00 Matsheds, Conduit Road 6 matsheds 5,000 Unknown. 34 29.10.20. 23.59 Matshed, Wong Nei Chung Village 1 matshed 200 Unknown. 35 4.11.20. 23.00 Tsun Wan
An unnumbered matshed at Hoi Pa Village, 1 matshed 100 36 29.11.20. 6.34 No. 12 Peel Street 1 700 Dried grass catching fire from the blaze underneath the pan. 37 1.12.20. 12.07 Nos. 271, 273, 275 & 277, Queen's Road Central... 2 38,000 A number of cinema films catching fire.

Remarks.

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