Meeting to Firebell Tower.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 146, 19 December 1895, Page 2

Meeting to Firebell Tower.

A meeting of wttepaye* and otbew : : .-', ' interested in tfae matter was h^ld ne^ur m ■. the firebell tower m Manchester Sqnate ;:",; •> ; yesterday afterDoon to contider ,ti»e ]'■ £; advisability- br otherwise^ 'yve^i^g U: the firebell tower from its" preaenitiater to the Ck>nirthoasepadd6cki,uie Borbo^b ;U>; ;?' Conncil having decided 6^^ and the Fire Brigade oWfkstii^^fef?^ £; : Between seventy v |i,n^4Mgl^>lN^P?^ ;: were present, inclnding several Teadfng : j business men, and Mr E/ Gbodbitoeip *;l presided by request, the fiie engine being 0; ; • converted into «-"€bajr?'^an4 :^plat|?Sr^ form, - ; - : --.Ti;-j-r-r; v .:-yjs ; |^M^Hi,: Mr Qoodbehftie stated ♦h^fobjoell of ;::v . ■ the meeting and invited flisj^nwabjnuf^ 4^ :,■ f : Mr P. Thomson said the removal of the tower was a matter of indifferenoa i to him as a ratepayer/lrat it wite put ' there oat of sabscriptions frann' titrate? - -: * payers to give an aliirm iieiaeNai^aK& y* : : They had to consider the qnesi^^ Wa* v :« I : it useful ?" before removiDg^fc^Jiß £ \ Council proposed shifting^ li^^to|!^S^ from public to private prope^^roijtt ?i where its removal could be, demanded '£??;; at any time and it wi^i l^^iif |^r f\ H' service as' not one man in- I**1 ** thousand •-' ■' : went that way after 8 o'clock at niglii. % -;', It cost about j^2 to eriect the tower . where it was, and -it Would j|wt.Js2o! toi j£ ; >: remove it. H the OiuncU^bid^ thai v amount to spare they Bh<^dpnia^6&er ffi : - £5 to it and, sink a welt jlii Madattbar -j'} : ; street. The people should protest the proposed was^ of publ^ mpnej^i The firemen gave theb time for nothing S- : and were ignored by .the Council.; VHb; ; *>r; : proposed " That this mee^g enter dts M ■: •: most emphatic protest ag^st. any i ? tempt to remove the firebeU tow^ fo t^e ;t; Courthouse Bectibn, b^eving tb^t>su(Sh' T removal would be attended with seriow : risk to the property !6f the »t^p*yer«;'' f£ • ;' Mr B. Gosling Becbnded tbß-niptiw;Q - giving as his reason ttat ; the ? b^^fß : of a greater convenience where it wa^i and he beUeyed the majority of the^rafe- •'-, payers were m favor f of leaving it there. . ■ ' ■ ;' ' : ,. .' • ' ' '^ : '-^ ■-- - ; Mr W. Carthew wanted toJinptrwhy ; ' the Council wished to remtrni|||K '>::>':; Mr Thomson believed, beppie- they thought it unsightly. '/I "■ '■■'■'■_ Mr J. Taylor wanted to know if th« Couooil had any power to remove Itf: ;.■; : - : 3 ( Mr Goodbehere s>^ they h^; au^ were the only ones who hi^anyJiJßtil^ '. ity to do so. He, and 'otter J<C>|^|BDo^Bj ■. thought it waa best m^^^mteie^ jot aj the bargesses that the towel' Mould J>b :^ removed, because the bell would be heard , ; over a greater area and befarmbreiisefui ' :: : and eerviceable, be^deis thevS^oare would look bette*. / .C '■■ I fM-Xs : Wsß } \ MrR. Bbwler, ■ft^*,vii^^iTd[ : |WSS^^^' they should c^V for fresh Oj^dl|ptt|n^^ % the place of th^^ i 'no#'-iv:offiw^th'«cjHl ; 5 •;•' (the Cooncillore) did not know;^th'eir work, and if they had fresh ones the latter would do-b^tterww^^:^;^.^?. jfi± : : : Mr A^ade^^bjougb^'^u^Crai^^^id^ >■:; treated them (the Brigad^ courteous manner aßftey^^^ to get a hearing lor ' ytliofauowSn^i^^ : ) U : The.preyaiu'ng^nds^4?^:^ ;^&*^ t-; '.;•'■ At this juncture the gw^^ , : . of some of those present, w^it^Jnio^ej|i : :' serious,, wa^ suddenly (chj|kiogOT^nwisra-yi v. sternation by a Square with^e c^:^ c^Kiw»*h^i^^! '■■: on fire." Not a few thought tbi* was a hoax, and for a few s^n^;rei^n|d i undecided, '. but being '^l&nMl^iUwer^! : ; ■■, was a fir© almbst C;; the strange '^^cidem^l^mSll^^ai>'^ ■ . persed for the ill-fated buildingandirent^ ■■ up Kimbolton rc^^ isqmepn^on«ba^,'^^ others on "bikes "in >■ leaving only a'few in the» Sqnja^^ : |ur-^ - :• vey the scene of wh^ promised to jb^^^^^^ ; -■ wordy stnfe; For lie firet ;,- history of the oldest ai^m^e^pm-; enced amongst those- ■ pra^nt^ fthe^; B "chair " left the chairman; ahdinot the >" ; (latter the former, bemgrdragged^way v bya handful of firemen. A^|hus ended H an important epoch ii'tfcje ■«nt^ ; ;ofJMe|^ Feilding Borough,' Ic^ng^^pfi|^flitf|^: ;, . such a momentous queetioh witlib^liy resolution thereon having y^ncan|adi a ";.-■■ However, nothing daunte^ at thisiuiex- I.1 ' . % pected terininatwn to thg X"fl^Mpg Oftp- r r ■ tain Thompson/ to convOTOT;inte^v f vl calUcg ano&^ meeting at »e«rl;d^ % :