STREET HYDRANTS
COMPLAINT BY CARTERTON BRIGADE. DELAY AT RECENT FIRE. (“Times-Age” Special). “The street hydrants have been tarred over, graded over and roaded over,” observed Mr R. P. Wakelin, Superintendent of the Carterton Fire Brigade, at last night’s meeting of the Carterton Borough, when urging that the council put all the hydrants in firstclass order and in future have them inspected every quarter. Mr Wakelin said the hydrants were in the worst condition he had ever known them. On the occasion of a recent fire the brigade had been delayed for three minutes trying to locate a hydrant and when it was found the top was so firmly fixed that it was only removed after considerable difficulty. He requested that the council put the hydrants in good order, maintain them and inspect them quarterly. The Mayor, Mr D. L. Taverner, said the council had decided some time ago to inaugurate a quarterly inspection of the street hydrants but unfortunately it had not been carried out. The council was to blame for not seeing that it was done and he gave an asi surance that the hydrants would be put in order, maintained and inspected every quarter. —« —i 'waaa—i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1938, Page 9
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198STREET HYDRANTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1938, Page 9
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