OLD FIRE STATION.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR PLUNKET SOCIETY. Proposals for the improrement of the old Fire Station, which is to be used for the purposes of the Plunket Society, came before last night's meeting of the City Council. The By-laws and Finance Committee reported: The committee received an offer to pull down the brick cottage at the rear of the old Chester street Fire Station, to remove the foundations, and cart all material from the riverbank for the sum of £-50, and the offer has been accepted. The City Engineer has arranged for the work "to be put in hand immediately. Mr G. T. Lucas, architect, some little time ago prepared a sketch plan of alterations which the Plunket Society wishes to have carried • out at the old Chester street Fire Station. The plans were examined and approved by a sub-committee, and it was decided that Mr Lucas be asked ) to prepare working drawings and speci- ! ncation and also an estimate of carrv- | mc out the alterations. * ! The report was adopted.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19805, 18 December 1929, Page 6
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