TOWN HALL DOORS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2128, 21 April 1914, Page 5

TOWN HALL DOORS

PJtOTiraW FGE PUBWC SAFETY,

The alteration of the outer doors of the Town Hall so as- to make .thorn all ■ open outwards was suggested fit the meeting of the City Council last evening by CeaiiciHor E. Trogoar.- The doors loading from the lin.U into t-ho corridors open outwards,, but most of the outer aeon .open inwards. The only .exception to tins fufe is the main outer door, at .tho Caw.Street vestibule,■ which is on the sHdififi: principle.. ' ... Coimdlwt Trogenr said that owners of factorios-wero required by few to have the doors of. their buildings.opening outwards as a precaution in case of fire of earWtrmike, ated it -was surely much wee necessary that the same" preCdit* tion should ' bq taken in the case of a building ia which three thousand people or more Eometimes assembled. Hα added tltat from what lio had heard of Town Hall meetings lately they were meetings from which the fmwjie could be excluded awd deorS opening outward. wcmltf withstand' a considerable pressure from the outside.

Councilor Fletcher said thai the council exacted ffoffi the proprietors of pjftses of amusement conditions which it slid not itself observe in the case <rf tho Town Hall. If a panic took, place when there were two or tjire© thousaaid people in tlie'Jjaii hundreds migM bo killed aM injured at the exits. . . , Couneilfef M'Kc'nzio'said that in the iatoresis of fte pubfe tlio doors «fe>uM lift altered, Sense of the ■other public hnllis also required'atte.iitio.ri..: ;: ' Tk> Mayor said that he -agreed that tl» outer doors should bo altered as soon as possible,; and to had no doubt tltat tJi« council Would lums i'iio work eari-iccf out. ■'• .■."■.■;"• '_■■'•■■•■■,•'■■■' ■■•■■"'•■!■