Steam Fire Engine.
While going to press a largely attended and influential meeting of citizens is sitting at the Masonic Hotel to consider the pros, and eons. of the purchase of a eteam Fire Engine. Messrs Common, Slieltou and Co. offer for
£6OO an engine which was sent out to the Melbourne Exhibition, the actual price of which is £B2O. The gentlemen who canvassed the town for subscriptions have succeeded in raising the very respectable sum of £537 55., to which has yet to be added sums from various institutions, such as Banks and Insurance Companies, also £lOO voted by the Borough Council. Too much cannot be said in praise of this energetic example. The following gentlemen were elected as a Committee : —Messrs Graham, Adair, Page, Stevenson, Nasmith, Common, and Boylan.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1070, 6 May 1882, Page 2
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131Steam Fire Engine. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1070, 6 May 1882, Page 2
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