NEW FIRE STATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 6

NEW FIRE STATION.

As one who lias watched with interest the various letters which have appeared in your columns re the site for the new fire station for the city, I consider local bodies are displaying great apathy. No one seems to have gone into the tremendous capital cost involved. Anyone visiting the site must realise that the contour of the ground must involve very costly foundations before any superstructure can be started. Again, traffic must increase and not decrease, as Pitt Street is one of the main outlets to North Auckland. The writer has inspected a site at the corner of Ponsonby Road and Hepburn Street which can be purchased at a very moderate price with ample ground for a building suitable for the next fifty years. Local bodies outside of the city have already heavy rates to pay for our firefighting organisation, and one can safely assume, with the huge expenditure contemplated. those rates must go up. Does it not seem reasonable that all those who will eventually have to pay for the services should have a say in regard to the wisdom of the site selected, money to be spent, and general policy, rather than that the whole matter should be left to the decision of one small body of men? TAXPAYER.