THE POST OFFICE FIRE. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 108, 9 May 1887, Page 4

THE POST OFFICE FIRE. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir— My experience of pnblio opinion in connection with the Poat Offioa fire as to non-insurance of Governmont buildings is entirely opposite to what "Democrat" finds. The publio generally condemns the po-.ioy of' the Government in not insuring: their buildings, the property of tho colony. I certainly agree with Councillor Richardson, in th&t'the Government should provide/ a new clock and chimes. The Corporation and the Harbonr Board each subscribed to the original clock, and tho Government, in its own peculiar way, undertook the risk ; therefore, we ought tb look to them to proVide the whole thing complete as it was before. Why shbnltf tho two Ideal hodies have to snffer on. '. account of tho short wjfhtedness of the. supreme ooloniaj body ? I think- everyone ' agrees with, " " Democrat as to the carelessness of, not haying- a night j watchman on BUohimportant premises, and trust it will prove a lesson to the responsible oarta* itt-tha iutttrei Can yon tell me what Sir. H. J. LrAtfrarde means in suggesting " a n«ir /clook'wxd chimes, with & firebefl attached?" Is the firebell to olang alternately .with the phiming ot the clock; or' for what Is it intended? oSnrely0 Snrely we have enough fire alums in t^e town without adding to their number to< make, the night hidoons. The leading one is not far from the Poat Office, just above on the Terrace. , Besides, tho bella, I bqliove, Jlavo nftvet' heeri bohind. hand in their duty, but with the' number of the ward rung 1 upon them have, immediately directed 'thtf -firemen and those, who bear a hand, not forgetting those who get in the way, to tho scone of the cpjWagration. fam, &o.V, • J ' ' 'P»rf BbNO POBIiICQ, ' 6th May, ' . ' ' ■ • •