Plans For Financing New Fire Stations

Press, Volume C, Issue 29563, 12 July 1961, Page 17

Plans For Financing New Fire Stations

The Christchurch Fire Board is to apply to the Fire Service Council for authority to raise £150,000 in lieu of existing authorities. The board decided this last evening.

The money is needed to complete the new central fire station in Oxford terrace and erect stations at Woolston. New Brighton, and Lyttelton.

Reporting to the board, the secretary (Mr S. F. Marshall) said the central fire station would cost £191,200, with additional cost for the alarm system. The Woolston station, workships, and single men's quarters would cost £28,000, with £2OOO for architect's fees.

Three single-unit houses to be built at the station would cost £7050, and this made a total of £37,300, he said. "When we went to the loans board for authority we envisaged the erection of 10 houses,” he said. "We have the authority for £52.000. so this means we have something else —with the approval of the loans board.” Mr Marshall said the fire station at Lyttelton would cost £21,500 including the architect’s fees, and the New Brighton station would carry

' total expenditure to £271,500. The board had received • £50,000 from the National : Provident Fund for the r central station, and investf ments in the investment fund > account totalled £28.000. “Added to this will be the proceeds of the sale of the , Lichfield street fire station, . but we had better not menL tion this at the moment,” he ; said. I Mr Marshall paused, then sUd: '"This is rather difficult if the press is going to take ! it.” Mr H. J. Reynolds said 1 that perhaps the amount it 1 was considered might be 1 raised from the sale of the fire station building could be • put on a piece of paper 5 and passed around. • Mr Marshal): Leaving out ’ that figure the board will require £143,500. We have a loan authority of £125,000 for 1 Kilmore street and £52,000 1 for Woolston. The board decided to set ’ out the position to the Fire • Service Council and seek ’ authority for the loan. > j Interjector , A member of the public , escaped recognition when he , Interjected during the ■ Address-in-Reply debate in , the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. Mr f •T. Murray (Government, Stratford) had charged the previous Labour Government with ruining the Army by the ending of compulsory military training when a man wearing an R.S.A. . badge interjected: “Through , the Free Masonry.” The inj terjector was sitting in the f front row of the public gallery. There was a pillar be- ’ tween him and a nearby attendant Mr Murray, and ; apparently other members, . thought the interjection came from a member on the Boor of the House.—(PA.)