MASTERTON FIRE BRIGADE STATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9538, 9 July 1909, Page 5

MASTERTON FIRE BRIGADE STATION.

PROPOSED NEW SITE. MR PRAGNELL WAITS ON THE HON. D. BUDDO. By Telegraph —Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 8. The Chairman of the Masterton Fire Board (Mr 0. Pragnell) waited on the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. D. Buddo), this afternoon, in reference to the site in Queen street, Masterton, on which the Board proposes to erect the new Fire Brigade Station. The cost of the land is £1,820, and the site is considered to be eminently suitable for the purpose. The sum of £750 is in hand for the purchase. The Act, however, while it allows a Board to purchase a site, does not permit it to mortgage the site when acquired so as to enable it to erect buildings and carry out other necessary works without the consent of the Minister. The Hon. D. Buddo considered that the cost of the proposed site was too high in proportion to the cost of the building, and it was nearly treble the cost of another site which the Fire Inspector considered more suitable. It was in Essex street, and could be procured Mr PragneU said the Essex street site would only be suitable if a road was cut through to tap Queen street, but there was no chance of | that ever being done. The Board was unanimous on the subject of the Queen street site. The Minister said he would have another report drawn up on the subject, and he would finally decide lu the course of the next fortnight.