Fire Board Purchase

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 3

Fire Board Purchase

Sir, —For some days we have been watching the demolition in Chester street of a sturdy threeflat building by the Fire Board. In this morning’s copy of your paper we see that the Fire Board has now purchased a property at 93 Chester street for the estimated price of £5250. Is this property also to be demolished, leaving a section of less than 20 perches purchased at a cost of £5250, or for what purpose does the Fire Board intend to use the house and land?—Yours, etc., CHESTER STREET RESIDENT. October 12, 1960. I “The board has purchased, with the consent of the Fire Service Council, the properties at 91 Chester street and 93 Chester street. One building is in course of demolition and the other will be demolished or removed,” said Mr W. R. Campbell, chairman of the Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Board, when this letter was referred to him. The land has been acquired to enable brick flats to be erected for brigade staff, the provision of car-ports for employees’ private vehicles, the setting aside of a small recreation area for young children, and the sale of sufficient land to the M.E.D. to allow the erection of a substation. The correspondent is incorrect in asserting that the section at 93 Chester street contains less than 20 perches.”]