NEWMARKET FIRE APPLIANCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 18

NEWMARKET FIRE APPLIANCES.

I consider that to spend a big sum of money these hard times on lire appliances for Newmarket, which can very well he done without, is shameful. J consider for a few pounds well spent the fire-engine which we have at the present time could be made just as up-to-date as a good many other fire-engines in and around Auckland. 1 quite agree we should have a man on duty night ami day at the lire station. On several occasions fires have been extinguished by outsiders before any member of the brigade has arrived on the scene. We have a brigade of twelve good men, but these have their living to earn, which takes them outside the borough boundary during the daytime. In my opinion as many as possible should be employed on the Borough Council, whore they could get away on the first clang of the bell. The furthest point of Newmarket from the fire station is about five furlongs, which can be reached in the matter of three minutes by the present fire-engine, and as we have no buildings in the borough above two storeys high, with one exception, there is no need for an electric ladder escape. RATEPAYER.