DANGEROUS GOODS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14268, 6 August 1910, Page 6

DANGEROUS GOODS.

THEIR' STORAGii IN XIIIAEU. Last night the Tima.ru .Borough Council hold u. special nioet.ug ior iiu purpoi© oi : amending ju by-law with, the <ji dangerous yueuo, j tho object 111 view being to obtain power Lo grant, a Uc-mis- to "the Vacuum i Uil Company or any other coinpany I v. hich may apply l'Jr the sioragc oi J oils iu bulk. There were; present—j Deputy-Mayor Hawkey. Councillors \ Sonify, Oboru, Harney. "Anghiud, i'orj tor, Beck, and SaUerthwaite. j The borough solicitors wrote that the j subject was one which required verv i careful consideration. The storage of , explosives, in large quantities. In a I populous locality had from verv early | 1 line-, been held to be a criminal ofI If-noe punishable by. indicimeut. and J civil redress could also be obtained C 7 ! anyone who might be iuiurod porsori- | ally, or whose proncrtv might | v ' C i,-.C_ j troyed as the result of such storn»-o. I 'l'ho ca.-e Once., v . I/,;..)- (i' : ; j°r' i Magistrates cases, p 106) was an ex- ; ample of a criminal ch.ir.iß bv imrcti mciit for storing, in a pe'nulous vr-igV i bourhood 4000 to oOUO gallons ei' napI tha. and from 40.000 to' 0(1.000 o-.,]i„,,, ;of spirits of wino. The del'endanw ; were round guilty -ind the conviction ■was upheld. Everyone concerned in • bringing about such storage by autlior- ! isniK Jf would be held responsible in jsiu-h a case. .... Great caution iSuould thererore ho exercised in granii i»K a license, both as to locality and ; ouantity. i Councillors Satierrhwaite and Oboru proposed an amendment Lo the i- ; , .; i ; l |„ , by-law j;iviii S the Cornell power t'o i grant a license for stnrin..- a lan-0.-i quantity than if j s possible to >"i V( ? .', 1 v!. e ".'.e ,'.'" at I' I '"'' l ' l - i'»lb mover and . that no risk wasl^ng'takon'm'drawing this power; that the by-It, w as it fctaiids at present is a dead letter- tj, at; each application could be- dealt wuj, on its merits; that having oils and i ;l ,ofceno stored in bulk here, would probably bo the means of reducing the pnee; and that less danger would exist t the dangerous goods were all in una building removed from the <renerel places of the town, than «vht s , "on- with small quantities stored" all : over the town.

iiie JX-iH.ty-Mi.yor pointed out that utois n umbers of the Council would he jo.ntly a „d severally liable if a a.slu occun-od through the existence 01 t<ie dangerous - WJ ds warehouse but r r Ull ,v i >oHl 'i' to grant a Loense Couucillor Harney .puoh-p0.,1,,,,1 t'lio uka oi any risk, and said that L all events was quite prepared to take h* .hare of the .■os l m„sil,i]il • V - Councilor J>, J]t .er .s ])( ,ke em'nhatic-.liv MUajry (t (|||s Ju , Sealey spoke "to similar thev U ' A "Sl»'"I K»Jd he thouaht -i •'.',.,■ "S <£:* .:;;;;' "■« '"r;? 1 ' imWion .„„ ' '"' ;l Pl":"VO(l the sau"ih:;n\/^;r , ;'V ,v Co,,nci,Ws To I ; n d!rkV o lli s :, x; ,i: F T rr ne - T , the !inPTi«i.- „■„, "' "the;- plneos Counedlor TTnrncv tin , ■ +' +?, +■ ■ should he (rood enon.VT, f,„ t~ ~ * Tn i-r.r,l,r 4 *""" H" Inr Tmiiini also. Jn lonly to Counoi] or neck the j own Clerk sn d that ii,„l„,. ViV cil'.s present hv-h i - ,m,M """ authority to More ■>.-; , ~'.. ', I™ g ' r ° JuO were kept ln some store, CfenflQiUor lieck doubted the wisdom

i in' liii:-iiit ~s iin-Liy well iii th'.-ir own hiv.vU. C'• >iriii-irlr.|- I'nrW pointed out tliat •lln'' Council i=. more lialile under oyistm- conditions to a claim I'or damage tl.nnmh fire f!,an if all tho oils vcre in on,. n„iUlm, r . Councillor Sattertlnvaito endorsed il'N. :.;.<l *.i<l tl.nf wln.ihcrtl.ov «'<! :;Jicf.n<c <„■ „o(. oik : ,,id kerosene "'"i"' 1 '■"'iriiniM to , f) i„, to Timarn. , " i,n.,„,.f.d l,y C.mn-'•ill-.rs An-drnul and Hook, that i| !( . 1)V----l;'"' ''''Dlam linalii-ri'i!. mtu 'osl, onlv '''Tl'^noiLn'^s'ikoa'turamKiaTied.