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The "Westport Fire Brigade having decided on increasing their efficiency by making better provision for the suppression of fire, deserve the thanks and cordial support of the public. The late fire at Eeefton, although, comparatively speaking, of slight extent, was stayed in its progress more by providential dispensation than by human agency. Slumberers roused from their sleep by the dread cry of " Fire," hurried from their burning dwellings only to find that in saving their lives they could save naught besides, for the means at hand to do battle with the flames were all to scant and useless. So also in Westport the alarm of the fire-bell would but rouse those in jeopardy to a sense of their helpless condition, and in the dead hour of the night, or in broad daylight a conflagration might extend unchecked until near half the town lay in ashes. Taking timely warning from the results of the late Reefton fire, the destruction of property, and loss of human life; the Westport Fire Brigade, as in duty bound, seek to prevent a similar disaster in the town over which they are the appointed guardians. To this end it is their intent to place the engine-house in

some more central position than it now holds, to sink at various available places additional wells, to increase the number of bucket standi, to supply whatever may be deficient or needing replenishment in their working gear, and last but not least, to get a larger and more powerful alarm bell, the tones of which may be heard from end to end of this scattered township. All these purposed intentions, recommending themselves to the public, will need for their fulfilment the expenditure of some hard cash, and the funds of the Brigade accruing from ordinary services are not sufficient to meet the estimated expenditure. The public will have to subscribe moderately, and no doubt will do so cheerfully, the more by reason that for two years past the Brigade have refrained from craving assistance, beyond the weekly subscriptions paid for the night watch service. Whether the appeal is made in the shape of a request for direct subscriptions of indirectly by a benefit performance, or both combined, the proverbial liberality of the Westport public could not possibly be directed in a better or more necessary direction.

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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1066, 25 April 1873, Page 2

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Untitled Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1066, 25 April 1873, Page 2

Untitled Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1066, 25 April 1873, Page 2

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