CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4287, 29 November 1892, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Albert Street Floodgate. [lO TUE EDITOR, WAIRAKAI'A DAILV TIMES,] Sir—ln your issue of Monday, 28th inst., a letter appeared signed " Herbert T. Marsh, Sec. Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade," in which he stated thai the axe vim taken out of tbo fire engine to free the floodgate, Now sir, to prove my letter was. correot which appeared in your istsuo of last Friday, the following was what really took place., On the alarm of tiro, Enginekeeper Langley turned out, and ou finding the whereabout/A of the fire took his axe from his own® firewood heap,andrartto the. floodgate above mentioned, out tbo sorew and freed the gate, He then ran baok to the pound, placed his axe there, and proceeded to Hall-street to meet his engine. W hen part of tho way down Hall-street he met Branehman H, Hounslow, who infotmed him that

thoengino bad goneup Albert-street, Now, sir, the floodgate must have been down two or three minuteß before jlie Volunteer Brigade arrived on the spot, and it was the first Brigade tbei9, Firemun H. T. Marsh writes very well on that which he knows nothing about. Signed: 1 B. Hodnslow, Captain M.V.F.B, W. La- olb/, Enginekeeper,