FIRE BRIGADES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2393, 24 February 1915, Page 3

FIRE BRIGADES

CLOSE OF THE CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Asseciatien.) Timaru, February 23. The Fire Brigades delegates this morning dealt with, the business of tlis Accident Assurance Association. _ The number of brigades now affiliated is 96 with 1583 members, a decrease of 146 since the close of tie .year, and three other brigades' l have 'joined. The revenue for year was £129 14s. 3d., a decrease of £14. Total payments for accidents amounted to £215 12s. 6d. The accumulated funds total £1966, an increase of £18 odd. The executive recommended the same scale of rebates as • last year. • _ Officers were elected as follow: president, .Wildish (Gisborne); vice-presi-dents, Goodwin (Akaroa), and Grubb (Stratford); secretary, Watts; treasurer, Osborne; auditor, Fraser. In the afternoon the firemen _ held sports on the bay and a party visited the Timaru 1 reservoirs. ,The next brigades' conference will bo held at Westport. '■

Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. announce in our auction columns that today at 2.30 p.m. they are submitting at their auction rooms, Featherston Street, the lease of a piece of land at the corner of Murphy and Little Pipitea Streets, having frontages of about 27t't. to Murphy Street, and 69ft. Bin. to little Pipitea Street, by an irregular depth. Details of tho lease appear in the advertisement and any further information may be hau on application to Messrs. Quick, Ward, and Wylie, solicitors, Featherston Street, or the auctioneers.