FIRE PROTECTION AT MIRAMAR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 49, 22 November 1920, Page 6

FIRE PROTECTION AT MIRAMAR

BOEOHGH OFFICES TO BE FIKE . STATION. When the city absorbs Miramar borough on January 1, there will be given immediately an odded sense of security to property-holders in that district. At present Miramnr has to depend on a volunteer lire brigade, with a very poor plant, to attend to any fires, that may break out in tho borough. That is-to say if a fire were to break out in the Miramar'golf-house or Scots College, it does not follow that the Wellington Brigade need notice the fact, but. after January 1 the whole of Watts' Peninsula immediately comes under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Municipal Fire Urignde, and slew liavo liecii already taken—in view of the amalgamation—to ensure the use of tho Miramar trough's brick power-house auil offices as a lire.station for the distnß. lor tha't purpose tho building is well placed, nnd the alterations neccsary to transform it into a firo station with living quarters for a small staff will not be verv costly. From the power-house on Broadway'there is a straight run up the vallev by way of Ira Street (opposite the power-house), and any part of the flat (whore the closest settlement is. likely), can bo reached in a few minutes by motor cycle or engine. Similnrly the run along Rroadway to the boundary— already an important residential nrea— can be mndo in two or three minutes, and thore the Miramar branch could link up with the Constnble Street arm of tho service. On tho other side tho nn through the tunnel to Seatoun and the bays will only be a matter of a few minutes to a motor engine.