Dear Sir,

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 59, 6 December 1946, Page 4

Dear Sir,

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FIRE SIRENS

Sir, —The Whakatane Fire Board’s decision to sound the sirens on one morning a week only would appear to be a forward step. It will certainly reduce the clatter in the Kopeopeo neighbourhood on five out of six mornings each week, but it will not remove the strain caused by the unexpected alarm when there is a fire. Fires have nasty habits of breaking out at any old time whether people are asleep or awake. Surely the Fire Board can do better than this after the years of agitation it has put up with. What must residents do to have their wishes carried out? They want the Kopeopeo siren moved, and if the Fire Board cannot find a better place for the offending thing perhaps we could find a better place for the very stubborn Fire Board.

The progressive Boroufh of Inglewood has its fire siren 100 ft off the ground on top of the Town Hall, so why not erect a high pole in the Domain and put the Kopeopeo instrument at the top. If the cost is the trouble, as it seems to be the main hindrance to progress in this town of Plenty, the Kopeopeo residents would willingly subsidise it. There is no reason why anyone should have to suffer the raucous contraption at any closer range than 100 yards. Here is an opportunity for the Board to do something worth while.

Yours etc., “SUFFERER.”