Leeston Volunteer Fire Brigade.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 887, 14 February 1891, Page 2

Leeston Volunteer Fire Brigade.

• '■ ;■,■'•"• ' ; " ■•■- *'' * f A meeting of the>;Leefton Volunteer Fire Brigade "was .held-' in the engine .house oa ,11th Febra^ Superintendant The jinnies ',9?<)Mi%%f,ing were read and confirmed. „. Vlja;l on , v -Correspondence; was read from— ' Firernatf Johnston, resigning his membership owing, to, his -having left the .district.;, &Wessfr.wssgret. A letter^waa i^fr? j-ojn^he Secretary of the United! Fire Brigades Association inviting* the(Le«6toniißHg»de to join the Associatibii^™<'« - • v'nq , Moy&d^by^fe^ a nd seconded >j{;F^ina'n Donald, that owing to the BQm\tj .bdand^nd the small amount of publip suppqrjb accorded tothe Brigade, the Secretary, be instructed to write to the Association, informingthem that the Brigade do- not see their way clear to joining at ; prysent. The, Treasurer; repdrM having received donations 7 frpjm ; ;^essrs Osboine and Andrews, an^'t^e.' .Secretary wag instructed to write^and^hank the above gentlemen for the same .it Two new members- we*e elected, Att\ one or two • staall -'accohifts passe d f3P*"' payment |1;:ti .-"y^^ The Treasurer repii-te^^hat new hose had been, purdhaaed^-ind the engine pat m » complete state of repair at considerable cost, and urgfld upon the meeting the importance of keeping the Brigade well before the public feittie matt- r of & water supply for' the' WWnship, and also 1 with regard to pecuniary support, A vote of thanks' to the chair terminated the meeting./; r