THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC MEETING AND THE FIRE PROTECTION QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1488, 17 January 1882, Page 2

THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC MEETING AND THE FIRE PROTECTION QUESTION.

A public meeting is called for to-night in the Cambridge Public Hall for the, purpose of taking the necessary steps to the adoption of the Town Districts Act now in force. As the matter is of import* ance to the ratepayers and residents of the district, all should make it their business to be present. .We have already dealt with this subject in, it* all-impor-tant bearing upon the subject of protection from fire. The following extracted from the Scottish Banking and Insurance record on the latter view of the subject is worthy of careful consideration. "When fire insurance became reduced to practice in the seventeenth century, or. perhaps earlier in some of the States of Northern^ Europe, the question] here ' propounded! " arose almost >of necessity., ? The answer^ must indeed be 'always the' same— protection against fire is a Municipal or : State duty, and lias Iffont the; earliest hours been so regarded. The fire insurance offices certainly have an interest in | preventing fires, and where the Municipality. of StiJte fails'inats duty <6f > taking, -proper protective* meqraxsg,,; ,som? Hcome,the interest of, the 60ce js totrtdp in •■and, secure the prpvisiqn ; .9fjmore J> efißcti[ve ] ''means. The^effectpfjthevr^sq^dpHngmuot "be 'this : that^%^^u^^&e^b"yJ^cca« sioned is,thrown,>io^ieaually- r overithe lP9P^tion^arou|«po}^Bttt|Bigply * ujpon^thMe-^ljd' jttftu^^^ph^cwonotJbe lt|e hves s^d^^prop^rj^.pijyg s^jectoj^m tlpss and desteuction^ from fire,i«ia agiuntt -robbery -W^V'ajitonrdestritotlon^ in^ jmT