BULLER NOTES
(Special to ••star.”) WESTPORT, June 21. Mr. John Menzies, wno recently retired from the Mayoralty, and the trusteeship, of the O’Connor Home, tendered his resignation on the Fire Board. The Borough Council appointed Councillor Sutherland, who took his seat at Friday’s meeting. The Superintendent reported four fire alarms tor the year, .none being serious. The insurance on buildings damaged or destroyed amounted to £l4O. The Board decided to support the Christchurch Fire Board’s representation to the Minister of Internal Affairs, to introduce legislation making the penalty for persons giving malicious false fire alarms imprisonment without ijlie option of. fines. Accounts amounting to £ll6 were passed for payment. The estimated expenditure for the year ending June, 1927, is £570, allocated as follow -Insurance Companies £260, Borough Council £260, N.Z. Government £5O. This shows a reduction of £6O on last year’s figures.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 June 1926, Page 8
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