STORING DANGEROUS GOODS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1904, Page 2

STORING DANGEROUS GOODS.

Afc tho meeting of the Harbour Board yesterday afternoon, tho Secretary laid before members of the Board sketch plans of a proposed magazine for dangerous goods on land near the Glasgow Wbarl. Tlie approximate estimate shows that a store for cartridges and one for chemicals could be erected in brick and concrete for £460 or £600. Suoh a etoro would havo a, capacity for about Zb [ tons of cartridges, etc., and for about 60 tons of chemicals, after allowing amplo room for Iho separation, of tlie various parcels. Apart from any question of storage of chemicals for the public or of the storage of cartridges, the Engineer is of opinion that it is very desirable that thero should be a magazin© to which all acids and chemicals and goods of a like nature should bo sent where they are not removed from the wharves wW landed, and that this class of goods should not be permitted to remain on the timber structures of the B.oard. He therefore asked permission to proceed with tho designs for and subsequently to erect tho building. Air. Beauchamp said that recent fires in buildings where, chemicals, eto., were stored showed tho necessity for this building. He had heard that two distinct fires recently woro caused- through exElosivos being stored on the premises, lo moved tho adoption of the report. Mr. M'Lellan said ho was rather disappointed at tho call for tho use of this building. The quality of -material offering for such a storo as this was not of tho kind that warranted the erection of such a store. The sito suggested, also, was too close to the Boards workshop, and did not seem a desirable ono, and ho expressed the opinion that the store would not pay. * The Secretary said it was not a question of revenuo, for even if the Board did not acquiro any revenue, it was a question of the security of having tho explosives on an oxclusivo sito. Mr. Townsend agreed with the Secretary, but thought that tho storo was not largo ouough. Ihe Seoretary pointed out that Superintendent Hugo was satisfied with tho sito, which was tho best procurable, lhere was an open space all round the proposed building. Tho report was adopted.