ELECTRIC FIRE ALARM.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2855, 28 January 1916, Page 2

ELECTRIC FIRE ALARM.

For Koine tune past 'the Feilding I* , ire Uoard luaa 'had boioro it the queeticji of ollieient lire alarms, but owing to tho expense tho matter was not eeirious cousidcraition. It is only ma-tural, therefore, that the uicmbeira of t)ho Fire Board who accepted m,u invitation to boo a model sj'sUun of tiro duplex firo alarju in operationi—'Messrs Goodibdherc, Ongloy, and Piiwii—wei-o ■iniorcsterf in tho domon'skra-tion of .its /working. There <aro sevoral , iniprovemenlis of im.ponta,uco iv: tho system, including* a> safeguard against wirc-br<!akiiig and an a*ito'tnatic telephone, wiliioli proved efficicnit, a.nd tho experience was of considerable! interest.. uVIr Porter, t'ho representative of tho eoin.pa.ny owning /tho eysitoni, oxpla.ine<l that it. would cost about, £500, .inclusive of wiring, to instal the apparatus in this borough, and that arraiigeiiioiits could bo matlo to extend tjie paynicnte over a long .period. Tho members of Illie Uoa.rd thanked Mr Porter for his lucid explanations amd Jn's courtesy.