JERRY BUILDING.
• (To the Editor.)
Sir,—The recent fire has revealed, a* state'of affairs of a most discreditabia kind, calling for the most searching enquiry at the hands o£ the. City .CQim,c%
I am riot alluding to the appliances fo£ extinguishing fires just now, but to th,<i flimsy building at the corner of Customs and Gore streets. .;
Had any fatality occurred, doubtless! the Council would have found themselves mulcted in damages.
As the city has paid officers to whom plans and specifications of buildings have to be submitted, citizens will want to know why a flimsy building of this description was allowed to be erected, and If we have any more like it in the city, with the strong possibility almost amounting to a certainty of becoming: veritable death traps.
It is rumoured that some sort of influence will prevent Councillors approaching this question, so their action will be narrowly watched by citizens who value life and limb more than £ s. d.—l am, etc., CITI2JEN.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 25 January 1901, Page 2
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