FLATS FOR WANGANUI FIREMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 4

FLATS FOR WANGANUI FIREMEN

GOOD PROGRESS MADE MARRIED MEN'S QUARTERS Good progress is being made with the flats to accommodate married firemen at the Central Fire Brigade Station Wanganui and some are exPPP'pr, to he ready for cccunation at the end of next month. Eight flats are in the main block, which :s on th" Wilson Street frontage and will accommodate eight families. The other group of flats, to he built facing Guyton S reet. will accommodate two famines. The Wilson Street building, which is in briek. heavily r-inforced with copppete hands, has a frontage of 26 feet and a death of 165 feet. Each fl"‘ has two bedrooms with wardrebes a ntnnorch. and bathroom on the first floor. On the ground floor *t—>p j? a living room, dining room t-''ch"n for each flat. All the •o'o- w’l’ch nr ’veil lit are lined •■Mb fihrers plaster board. The expre plastered and will be ""irt"' l . The flats will be centrally htnied throughout and provision is b-><- made for the installation of -•-rm brils end a ni'.ot light in each , The alarms will be con*rol;<"’ fr om the watchroom in the C'n’rr! Station. Vn.~, the Wanganui Fire Board de<•■.<’o'l to build Quarters for married ’•rerren it raised a loan of fIa.OOO. —Wil'oi Stree site was bought for "535. an old mortgage on it of £425 '.ring reoaid at the same time. Th" "cntrr.ct nrice for the two new bulldogs is £l3 200.