THE FIRE SCARE.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —l hope that the City Council, as trustees for the citizens, and bound, therefore, to exercise care and economy in the expenditure of funds, will not be induced by popular clamor arising from the fire to hastily vote £BOOO or £IO,OOO for a steam fire engine without considering the subject in all its bearings. It would be absurd for a small town like Wellington to ape London in its appliances.; Probably London, if it had facilities for a plentiful, gravitation supply like ourselves, would have preferred it. At any rate, the expenditure of a sum nearly equal to the annual city rates should not lightly betlhdertaken, on what may prove to be a useless toy, compared with the same sum spent iu widening the mains and increasing the supply of water. The fatal facility that exists for spending public money by municipal councils, and the morbid craving for popularity in some of their members, I constitute a continual danger of useless extravagance to'the community.—l am, &0., Common Sense.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5685, 19 June 1879, Page 3
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180THE FIRE SCARE. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5685, 19 June 1879, Page 3
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