RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 20

RANDOM REMINDER

TOGETHERNESS

If the vocational guidance people had to begin their assessing and recommending on subjects of more tender years than they handle at present, they would very soon be driven to drink, for the probability is that nearly every little boy they questioned would state quite firmly that he wanted to become a fireman. There is no mistaking the glamour of a uniform, even those provided by the Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Board. And there is la whiff of drama every time the siren sounds. Everyone would want to

be a fireman if every day their preparations as the brought a dramatic rescue engine speeds along—on of a beautiful young go the great Roman cenwoman. If it is not always turion helmets, round go possible to do this six the huge leather belts, sc times a week, the fact re- that when they reach the mains that firemen look fire, it is merely a mattet magnificent as their engine of jumping off and starting screams its way through work. Unless, of course, the traffic. a couple of firemen show The speed and efficiency human fallibility; two of fire fighting always wins from a suburban brigade admiration too. One can did not long ago. One of picture them—men ex- them attempted to leave hausted by long hours the machine and turn left, combating a rash of oven the other proposed to go fires and inflammable chim- to the right But they deneys being called out in scended like a pair of unthe dead of night. They willing and irritable slide down the pole and Siamese twins: they had with the speed born of managed to link their long practice they finish huge leather belts.