NEW FIRE STATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3702, 11 December 1912, Page 5

NEW FIRE STATION.

BOARD WANT LEGAL TITLE TO SITE.

A BILL 'REQUIRED

The question of giving the Gisborne Fire Board a legal title to the lease of a section in Palmerston Road for the erection of a new' fire station was considered by the Borough Council last evening. The Chairman of the Gisborne Fire Board wrote stating that on behalf of the Board he had to draw the Council’s attention to the fact that the necessary legalities enabling the Council to grant the Board a lease of part section 375 Palmerston Road for the purpose of erecting thereon an up-to-date Fire Brigade Station .Had not yet been completed. The Board could not proceed with the financial arrangements necessary to enable them to erect this building until the Council granted a lease and further that the growth and expansion of Gisborne demand more efficient fire-fight-ing appliances and service .than they had at present. A very "important step in the direction of attaining this end is the erection and equipping of a modern station. He urged the Council in the interest of Gisborne as a whole to use every endeavor to have the necessary legal steps authorising the granting of this lease to the Board taken at once arid thereby obviate any further delay than necessary. Cr. Smith said that ‘owing to the Board having no proper legal documents giving them a right to the land the Board could net raise the necessary money required to construct the new fire station.

The Mayor: Can you suggest any way out of the difficulty p Cr. Smith: It requires a short Bill of Parliament. The Mayor: Well, we had it ready for last session. The Harbor Board raised some objection, but this had been amicably settled. The Council could not do anything until the Bill was passed. .

The Council decided to reply' that they could not take any action until the Bill had gone through Parliament.