THE FIRE BRIGADE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 454, 12 March 1909, Page 5

THE FIRE BRIGADE.

MUNICIPAL OR BOARD CONTROL? POLL OF,RATEPAYERS DESIRED. Among other matters, a recommendation was made to, the City Council last night. by the Jnre Brigades Committee; . • "That the-council take steps, under the provisions .of the Fire Brigade Act, 1908 and itsi amendments, to apply to the ? ? f fo , r » n ,,Prder-in-Council declaring the al/ll W m &? t° a fire district under the Fire Brigades Act, and that the necessary poll of the ratepayers of the citv in connection therewith be taken on the Sstheld!' h ' eCOmingeleCtiOnot ' C 0,11 ,- Counoillor Ballinger, in moving tho adoption tvtl submitted that rotepayers should have a chance of savinc whether control of a fire board. The upkeep of the fire brigade was a very important matter to the ratepayers. The cost of maintenance this vear f£ Uld 0 T^ 8 ? 0 - 0 - ,If the we eunde •he conro of a board the Government would ttVc a ouncn n° T 5 ;/ 100 ? f H a,UOUnt ' fj " , and 'he. underwriters would have valu? „«, nCe l n C( l" al P r °P° r ''ODS. The value of the property which would pass from the council o the board was, say, 440,000 It would be paid for by 26 yearly instalment , a JWmr e wl >ich would mean, say from SS y f r - l \ W«™*t were deducted rom the sum which the council would be /w ?, er annum -" z - it would Sn S| Bt e the -«"'Ma would only have to find AIBOO m respect of each of the next 26 years Deen tow that if the obange were made rh« Sb^Wa^iri&^ni tS™k F etOm ! 15all «erston North! and Poldl ing \ that member was not the chairman iml 1 d / d tK not at a l' follow ' as ha( l S'Sested that the member elected by the Government w ?s necessarily the chairman- UoTernnll >»t Card Whloh y °" no,v desire to Wng t^St\^ limTS Th ° »""n«t«e thought Tho fcyor B» P f rOpCr ° n V°,! )d ('i««sscdorenino- 3 But we clm ' discuss it this :ci|lo r Ü Bfe 0h ' t,,ntisJ ' nattCTf o'Co«nThe matter then dropped.