FIRE ALARM SYSTEM FOR RICCARTON
BOROUGH’S CLAIMS TO BE PRESSED
Allegations that the Christchurch Fire Board had refused to install a fire alarm system in the Riccarton borough because the borough had not amalgamated with the city were made at the annual meeting of the Riccarton Citizens’ Association last evening. Mr E. J. Bradshaw (who is a member of the Riccarton Borough Council) said that the council was at present paying £lOOO a year to the fire board. The council had been notified that when its present agreement with the board expired in 1949 this sum, because of the recent increase in firemen’s wages, would be increased. He expected that the council would have to pay £l5OO.
The Riccarton borough had second priority on the brigade. The council considered that £lOOO a year entitled it to a fire alarm system, whether or not there was a high-pressure water system in the borough. “How did New Brighton get its alarm system?’’ he asked. “We would get our fire alarms to-morrow if we amalgamated with the city of Christchurch.” Members agreed that Riccarton should press more strongly than in the past for an alarm system.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25299, 26 September 1947, Page 6
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