“AT MERCY OF FIRE”
NEWMARKET PROPERTY AN OBSOLETE BRIGADE “ All we have to combat a fire if it breaks out is an obsolete plant housed in a ramshackle old building which has been standing 42 years,” stated Mr. A. Kent, a member of the Newmarket Borough Council to a SUN reporter this morning. A Loan Essential Dealing with the question of the Newmarket fire-fighting service, Mr. Kent said that it was essential that the proposals to raise a loan of £4,500 for the improvement of the borough’s fire-fighting facilities should receive the earnest consideration of all ratepayers. With property within* the borough worth £1,500,000, he considered it was absurd that they should be at the mercy of an out-of-date plant, the total value of which, including the station, stood on their books at something like £SOO. In the event of a fire of any magnitude the brigade as it existed was practically useless for dealing with fires in the early stages, and he considered that it was of vital importance that the brigade should be raised to an efficient standard as soon as possible. Mayor’s Statement Refuted Mr. Kent also said that in a circular recently issued jointly by the mayor, Mr. S. Donaldson, and Mr. H. J. Cooper, chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee, it was claimed that all phases of fire-fighting had not been investigated as stated by supporters of the loan proposal. That that was incorrect, said Mr. Kent, could be borne out by the fact that at a meeting of the Borough Council when the question was discussed. the mayor and deputy-mayor were appointed a sub-committee to go into the question of fire equipment and collect data. It was as a result of that data, said Mr. Kent, that a majority of the council, including the deputymayor. resolved to recommend to the ratepayers the raising of a loan to establish an efficient service. Under those circumstances he failed to see how it couTd be stated by the mayor that the question had not been investigated. T ~l —r ~l —r —l —! —l- -I —
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 March 1927, Page 7
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347“AT MERCY OF FIRE” Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 March 1927, Page 7
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