FIRE ALARMS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12548, 10 September 1926, Page 12

FIRE ALARMS

NEW SYSTEM URGED HIGHER BIULDINGS; T.ARfTETP. STOCKS. A new fire alarm system was advocated 1 ' i - G f ay . at the meeting of the Jfirc Board yesterday. They had set aside the sum of d£7so for the overhaul of the existing system, he said, and this system was one which gave many false alarms. It would be better if they were to consider the question of whether they should not follow rP e - ex ® m Ple of Auckland and replace their alarms in the city with Duplex alarms and move the old ones out to the suburbs. The Duplex alarms could not give a misleading signal, because if it gave a false alarm it informed the brigade of the fact at the time. J. Creeke, superintendent of the Fire Brigade, admitted that the alarms were good, but pointed out that they i were committed to * much wiring of I alarms at heavy cost. To replace them | would* take years. I To tin* chairman (Mr C. J. B. Nor- , wood): The Duplex system could not fail to get a signal through even if a wire broke. If the wire of their present alarm broke no signal came through. Their buildings were getting higher and their stocks were growing, and he was speaking for the commercial community, said Mr Cray. The matter was left over till a later date.