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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 7

bpeaking to a Brooklyn munic pal deputation last-nigh V Councillor;■■Bollinger,' chairman'of ™e r J) ire Brigade Committee, said ho would suggest that the Brooklyn Ratepayers' AssociaS? hO W ■ c ? l l^ dc , r , e . S<»e«ion' of recomw?dmgthe:,Cjty Council; to avail'itself! of the lfire Brigades- Act. If a. firo board were set up once more, and the : annual expenditure qu e „o P L e J e ?, tlon w cro the same aif at' pre! SV lsT>* the Q °W"nent would contH&ite J.400,,the insurance companies .£3BOO, and the City Th?: board would also H^V- 0 ?*! 6 t! > e ' P r and. plant of SH« r? r" ? ilS e K me ?, M "■■Wenty,six ! annual h »t';-yron d mean' about 'Ami year, ;nna\ the .amount to he paid by the Citv CouncU- for ,irei WuS thus be reduced of the iBOOO it : was spending at present. There would he no chance, of .'getting the Tire Brigades -Act teSS-T th ° H nblio took an ijiW in the matter,' as the poll would Vt,Ud > ? p it ,s . :two - thi rds'of the rate-Payers-recorded their votqs. He, therefore' mtion, would go carefu Uy i ß to the question, lhe secreta.ry of thp association (MrRC o Unnpr) saul the matter wquld ho bromh be ore the. members at a future meeting™