THE PROPOSED FIRE ENGINE HOUSE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 285, 18 November 1862, Page 5

THE PROPOSED FIRE ENGINE HOUSE.

(7'o the Editor of the Otago Daily Times.) Sik.—We have been made aware, through y">ur ,med:iim curinp,' the last few clays, of a very p]ea*shi<> tact—to wir, tiiar. tki Town Board purpose ereetiii" an ' engine-house/ as -well as Ixi-ry. The ailotmpm abov.^ the Wes eyun Church 'in:i>"' be suirab'e for tiie latter; but not one individual to whom I hay .spolu-n^ on the subject can s-te anythius but rank ulisurdity in the very idea of selecting such a site for an enmi.e-house. The Town Board has not Ir.tterlv shown its-lf indisnostd lo defer to public ojiinion' on a.iy subject wnicli vniiy be fairly ojicn to criticism : a'<d ie is lo be hoped that. «t, their next meeting, vhis sublet t will bo iv-e«ui!.i.>cred, ere the mi.sciii.-f is consummated. We know vrell thit tiie woather is not to be dt-p'-ndef) upon in Dunedin, and we also know that the my road avni'able to bring the engine up to end down irorn, this contemplated 'eminence in bowlino-. street, would l.c round In the Robin ilood Hotel. " 11 Cookh.-tm Buildings. Prin.-es-sfcre fc, were on firt whe.ji. an niarm was soundefl. I fa-mv ali the boots and sboe< in srock would lie ]iret!y well cooked, nefon"" the new engine was dragged round Ly York-place. But I may be in «rr«,r;— the idea, likely, is to tip the en.uinp, hose, and firemen, down tiie perpendicular at the Prii:ces-str»ot end of Duwling-street. feir,

Yours obediently, ' A FIREJIAN OF THE FIUST MaGNITUDK." 15th November, ] 862.