FIRE BOARD.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16702, 10 December 1919, Page 7

FIRE BOARD.

LAST NIGHT'S MEETING.

Tlie Chrhtclrurch Firo Board met la«t r.:~ii!. Proi-ont—Messrs H, P, Hopkins A, Williams, V. Burgovne, >T. 1?. Canwon, and A. Manning. • Tlie liieearton Borough Council wroto with reference to the estimated cost of fire protection for the borough which had been forwards from tho Kire Board. It was stated ( l ia; tho matter had been referred to a special committer, which would communicate with the Board later. S-upeiintendent Warner, in liis report, stated that tho total number of calls from November fit!) to Deoombcr 4th was 25. Of t!i'3!» 13 were for malicious false alarms, 2 for <;nns flies, 1 for u chimney fire, and 7 for actual fires. The r-stimatcj fir© low for- the period was XCSI. Tho in.Turnncec on buildinßH and contents were £12,003, and the estirnnt<vd value of the property involved was £1G,400. "On Xovemlver 12th," the report fit;)ted, "between 12.20 and 12.-I3 ajn., a scrirfl of malicious false alarms wero receive<l from boxes on E, P. G, and I circuits, presumably from eomo person well acquainted with tho running of the circuit*. An tlrse calls have becomc all too prevalent, it is my intention to nok in future that offenders on conviction be *>uni?hed by a term of imprisonment, n« provided for by fi'-ction 48 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908." For somo con=i-lerablo timo pafit various mov?mpnt<» bad mado to fill in the water tank in Ili.rh street, and a* the mntter was of vital importance to tii<> welfare of the larijo block of businesi premises in that localitv in ease of f;r.*, he had again to record liis protest against its removal. He asked the Board to eniphasiso the fact that, in case of I'k> city water enpnly failing at any time, this t»ink t.h a very valuablo assot in ns?i«ting the brigade to keep a fire in check whilst the steamers were pettim: to work from the nearest supply, the river nt Cnshcl street bridge. Tho report was adopted.