SALVAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3640, 16 October 1890, Page 2

SALVAGE.

(Wlfttßr,) SiarJn' the rose of awing of vessels in danger at saa I bolieve a certain per • oentage is allowed on their values as salvage. In tho case of the saving of property endangered by fire there is no allowance for salvage, excepting what the insurant 66injSatries' flHutif fliMufe aid wlafeed tqdpje qui 'The people of yiittyfw Wtf&on • • jo fuyßm ijjjMi'tiia''' losiiHby'lnsurinjp Wq goni'to the expend dfti stdMm : 'BW < engine and equipping and maintainirig 'three fire' brigades, and the efficiency' of these brigades bare been ; "well tested this week,rnore especially of t|}B fifes ojf}qg..(q the gale of wmd prevailing, yell in"'one"cafe-the ■, Volunteer Brigade suopeedod in coping with the fire in the outabod of the Drill Hall and saving pro* pert; to tho valae of thousands of pounds. The Drill Hall was actually ] alight 9n,d,WQujd'have gone, taking i

with it the Temperance Hotel, Heron's store and. the VVeslejran church and other, buildings without a doubt. Then at the fire at Daniells' in a building containing inflammable materials surrounded with .timber, and large wooden. buildings tho Municipal and Volunteer Brigades, in spite of the wind and tho distance from the water supply, confined tho firo. to Che outbuildings, saving, a considerable number of adjacent buildings, one of which, the Argyle Boardinghouse, waßOnfirein several places inside and out and underneath, 'Now, sir, what aotioa can be taken to get the insurance companies to recognise the brigades in a substantial manner? There are plenty of .ways in which the latter can spend whatever money they may receive, and I am suro it would he expended in further improving and equipping the brigades for contending with other fires, I hope the matter will be taken up in earnest by our letding men,—l am, &c, Bcroess,