SOCIAL SECURITY BUILDING FIRE
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—ln your issue yesterday evening you report Mr. Savage as expressing sympathy with the sufferers, which he couples with the remarkable statement that "the most that can be said about it is that it has caused a loss of public money and a certain amount of inconvenience."
As a victim who had to get out of a building in night attire only, may I ask why should the sufferers be financial losers and soothed with a platitude, when obviously the building should never have been erected in wood. We depend on our Government for protection. When this same Government elects to pull down a concrete or brick building in the heart of the city, as is being done this week, what would be said if by using its prerogative it were to use dynamite and endanger the life and property of the citizen? Yet in no respect does this differ from building in wood in a brick area. Why then should those who sanctioned this wooden building offer only phrases to those who had to fly for their lives as the writer did?—l am, etc., AITKEN STREET VICTIM. February 3, 1939.
(To the Editor.)
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 8
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201SOCIAL SECURITY BUILDING FIRE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 8
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