FIRE PROTECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 6

FIRE PROTECTION.

DEVONPQRT EQUIPMENT.

DEFENCE DEPARTMENT PROPOSAL.

Fire protection in Devonport was discussed by the local borough council last evening.

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The headquarters of the northern military district, he said, had discussed proposals for fire protection at the Narrow Neck and North Head camps Principal suggestion w as that made by Mr Girling Butcher, chief inspector instaH at U an' . Devon Port should i mod*™ « appr °: vluiate co *t of £900, nmmw 6 Cngme with a booster liter £r tTV? ad , eqUate force ° f Head Thl n f lgher T l evels on premi'red £? k ?i- CC was £4M?Zh;I slrbsi l ,se this proposal by of a'camn fir^ 8 he ,. estin >ated amount Afw fire protective system. cMpH + discussion the council deof Air °Bnf U h P ° rt t , he recomm endations I nlf n and t0 with the Defence Department in urgino- the Government to ratify the propyl.