MR McFARLANE'S COMPLAINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 58, 25 October 1887, Page 2

MR McFARLANE'S COMPLAINT.

We feel again impelled to refer to the question of the safely of our theatres in case of an alarm of fire, though we might point out that it would be more in keeping with etiquette if Mr McFarlane were to address his letters to us who have upheld the Council in their course.

Mr McFarlane makes the most forcible argument that he has yet given when he says that he was not granted a license for his hall until it had been inspected on behalf of tie Borou-h Councd. Looked at from this we mustadmilthat there is a good dial of justness in Mr McFarlane’s complaint—it certainly shows that he is being put to considerable expense in remedying faults for which he is in no way accountable.

But this consideration cannot be extended fu.ther than to regret that the proprietor of the hall should now be occasioned any inconvenience. It is just a matter whether the Council tin overlook the safety of a large number of people in a desire to make amends fora former oversight on the partlof one of their officers. Recent events,L we have already shown, prove tfat there cannot be too much cautmn exercised in reference to the safely of theatres, and Mr McFarlane is not by any means .in a singular position in having to submit to recommendations made with this object in view. There is no desire on the part of t’e Council to cause more expense and inconvenience than is necessary in the interests of public safety, and if the Inspector can devise anything more suitable no one can have any objection to it, so long as it is compatible with the resolution already passed by the Council.