FIRE PROTECTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 9

FIRE PROTECTION

SAWYERS’ BAY DISTRICT LAXITY OF BOARD ALLEGED Adverse criticism cf the town’s fire brigade since the bakehouse .fire on December 1 had been heard from /arious quarters, and he* resented 1., father' the criticism should have been iirected at the Port Chalmers Fire 3oard , which had made no provision or obtaining a supply of water in the lawyers’ Bay for such an emergency, leclared Cr H. S. Watson at the nonthly meeting of the Port Chalners Borough Council last night. The fire brigade had turned out iromptly, but the only water available vas a trickle in a creek which had ,o >e dammed before the suction pump :ould be brought into use. “We ir. he council,” Cr Watson said, “have a noral responsibility to give the people >rotection from fire.” He moved that he council’s delegates to the Fire loard should investigate the question >f a water supply in the district to neet a similar emergency and should irge that a temporary arrangement at east be made. Cr H. Williamson said he had been member of the Five Board for only short time, and he had been stounded at the glaring lack of fire irotection in the Sawyers’ Bay section if the borough. “ Sawyers’ Bay has been in the iorough a year, but it has taken a fire o make us realise the inadequacy of h° fire-fighting services there,”- said he Mayor. Mr T. Anderson. The council carried Cr Watson's notion. Present at the meeting were tho dayor Mr T. Anderson, Crs G. Forgie, l J Austin. H. Williamson, W. D Campbell, L. Neilson. T. G. Bayliss, Jeeves, and Watson. Donations of £lO and £2 2s were iven to the Royal and lerchant Navy Club and to the -St ohn Ambulance Nursing Cadets, both a Port Chalmers. Accounts totalling £1036 12s 6d were assed for payment. The dog regisration fee for 1948 was fixed at 10s The Mayor reported on the South 3 land Local Bodies’ Conference, held ist week at Invercargill.