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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 8, 4 October 1907, Page 2

In noting that the Dunedin. Fire Board takes, over control of the City Fire as from yesterday, the " Olago Daily Times" urges the necessity tor a motor engine. "It is notov • ions," says' the "/Times," "that, as > present equipped, the City Fir.lir is totally unable to overcome th> cultiCs to be faced in hill-climbi anything like the despatch tin-!' : 'siu'y. A striking illustrn , were requiveil, of the ini' . present cquipincut v , Saturday night on tli lire in iligh titivbt, instead of being abi ■'■•'■"■' ■ fully with the graiu ■>■•:, had to take a circuitous .unto round Stafford Street." . Presiding at the meeting .of the South . Metropolitan Gas Combpany at Cannon Street Hotel on August 14, Sir Goo. Livesey said that by whining out the coal; duty Mr. Asquith had reduced tho tax, not on the Uritoii, - but on the" foreigner. "It seems to me to Uβ Miioidal for England to deplete itself of its capital," he declared. • "When our coal is done, -England is done, and as coal gets dearer it becomes harder' for evorjone in England to live."