Fire Brigade Conference.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 256, 6 March 1894, Page 2

Fire Brigade Conference.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). JV api kb, March 5. At the Fire Brigade Conference, i Capt. Jull, Waipawa, presiding, 51 delegates were present, and were [ welcomed by Mr Swan, Mayor. The report showed £353 to credit, and a balance of assets over liabilities of £410. The total of the brigades on the roll is 58. In view of Lt. Smith's visit to America it was resolved to ask all brigades there to give him every information in their power as the Association's representative. The following motion was passed : — That the decision of the last congress re the Fire Brigades Bill be re-affirmed, and the Executive be instructed to have a bill prepared for presentation to Parliament on the lines of the Act now in force in Victoria. Under the Victorian system, Municipal Corporations and Insurance Companies, each pay a third of the cost of maintenance of the brigades. This Day. At the Fire Brigade's Conference today the proposal admitting fire police ana salvage corps to the Association was carried by a large majority. This motion has been thrown out at every meeting of the Conference for years past. The delegates also approved of a scheme of life insurance for firemen as proposed by one of tho Napier Agents of the Government Insurance Department, and the Executive was instructed to give effect to the scheme if found workable.