MORE MONEY NEEDED

Press, Volume C, Issue 29497, 26 April 1961, Page 14

MORE MONEY NEEDED

W ft ■- m Fire Board f .St _ ~ : - Metropolitan TW Board will need SriiwSriij&Jn the 1961-63 At its anon Monday foSSusbtt expenditure of XMS,W<' compered with last year’s estimate . of The estimates have to be approved tar the New Zealand Fire Service Council. I Mr S. F. Marshall, the secretory, said that it the estimates were approved, the money would be met as follows: insurance companies, £71,095 <£5Al5O last year); Government. - £14419 (£11.630); local bodies. £56,876 (£46,530). '.K- ■ Explaining the big idcrease in the estimate for the salary and wages of permanent brigade staff, £92,439 the Chief Fire Officer (Mr I* R. Oemoad) said the dustrial agreement and stafftag proposals -It has been rather tricky to estimate how |t win operate.’ • be bmathing apparatus bought last year had contributed greatly to fop expenditure of £3198 on sundry equipment, Mr Osmond said, and this year it was possible to reduce the estimate to £3OOO. Questioned by Mr A. S. Hollander about the £4460 provided for maintenance and renewal of uniforms and personal equipment. Mr Osmond said the provision had to be made to meet the requirements of the award. The £lBOO provided for radios included provision for another station on the top of Mount Pleasant.