EMERGENCY FIRES
BUCKET PUMPS SECURED (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The Wellington Fire Board is about to order 500 bucket pumps, and the superintendent, Mr C. A. Woolley, was asked to what class of pump this tender referred. He said it was an improved four-gallon bucket pump of substantial build that would take a good deal of knocking about. It would be made of iron, painted red and would throw a jet of water 45ft. to 50ft. One feature of the new pumps would be the large screw-top opening. During operations that would remain open, so that while the pump was being worked a continual supply of water could be poured into the tank. Mr Woolley said the idea of securing these bucket pumps was not to plant them here and there for use by the public in an emergency. In his opinion that was not practicable; they would son get misused and they would soon get misused and open, and if they were locked up there would always be trouble over finding the keys. The bucket pumps would be stored in the fire brigade stations, and some organisation—perhaps members of the Automobile Association—might be asked to take them to strategic points when a state of emergency existed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 9
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209EMERGENCY FIRES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 9
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