FIRE BRIGADES
DEPUTATION TO MINISTERS
REQUESTS CONCEDED
.'By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, October 31
The Executive of the United Fire Brigade’s Association interviewed members of the Cabinet to-day. The deputation included Superintendent P. Deere (Grcymoutli), Captain C. E. Gilbert, Mr C. A. Osborne, of Onehunga, Mr T. I. Watts, of Newmarket, and Superintendent Tyler, of Gore.
After the interviews the Executive stated that it had reached a definite understanding with the Department of Internal Affairs as to the status of toe Fire -Brigades’ Association. The Minister of Transport, M,r Veitch, gave a sympathetic hearing to their ,representations in relation to the licensing, of fire vehicles. The deputation also made a request to Hon Mr Atmore, Minister of Education, that fire prevention should be taught in the schools. '!h-s was received equally sympathetica 11 v. Mr Atmore) stated he would do everything possible to carry out th*' Association’s wishes in the latter inspect. The suggested fire-fighting drill based on a set of lessons compiled by Mr C. Malcolm, of Pae.roa, and will be incorporated in the school syllabus.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19291101.2.68
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1929, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
177FIRE BRIGADES Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1929, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in