CITY COUNCIL’S PROPOSED LOAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 9

CITY COUNCIL’S PROPOSED LOAN

(To the Editor',

Sir, —In a letter in last evening’s issue of “The Mail” Mr W. Lock says that two statements in the report of my speech at the Council meeting on Thursday on the subject of the extension of the Municipal buildings, inclusive of a Pioneers’ Memorial Hall, and concerning a Fire Board are contrary to fact. I will ask him to prove his first statement, and regarding his second one, my statement that the cost would be borne practically by the insurance companies, applied to the cost of the fire station. I did not go fully into the cost of a Fire Board, as the councillors know all about that. As the ratepayers will be contributing the present fire fighting plant and the site for the new station, it is reasonable to expect that the cost of a new station will not greatly exceed the value of the plant and site; therefore the contribution of the insurance companies should nearly cover the cost of the new station.

Mr Lock’s observations on the probable attitude of the Loans Board can be taken for what they are worth, also his attitude in connection with anything I say or do.

] In endeavouring to make provision for a. better rest room for women and a Plunket room, both of which are embodied in my proposed extension scheme, in the case of the Plunket room I am doing this at the request of Mrs Lock, president of the Plunket Society, which I am pleased to do. —I am, etc., W. J. MOFFATT, Nelson, 13th December.

| What the Mayor actually said when dealing with the proposal to set up a Fire Board was: “As to the Fire Board, the cost of the station would be borne practically wholly by the insurance companies.” In the setting up of the manuscript the words “of the station” were unfortunately omitted. —-Ed., “The Mail.”]