FIRE BOARD REPRESENTATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 15 February 1927, Page 3

FIRE BOARD REPRESENTATION.

P ERSONN EL 1 1 EDUCED. At last night’s Borough Council meeting, the Department of Internal Affairs wrote staling that section 23 of the “Fire Brigades Act 1920,” provides that the bi-ennial election of members of the Eire. Brigade shall bo held in February and that the Department asked to be furnished with the names of the two gentlemen elected by the Council as soon as the information is available. It was pointed out that the amendment to the Act provided for two instead of three representatives from the local authority and insurance companies, malting, with the Government’s nominee, a personnel of live on the Board. Cr. Walker, in moving that the Mayor and Cr. Woods be appointed, referred to the interest these gentlemen had taken in tire board administration in the past. Cr. Thompson, seconded the motion and endorsed the remarks of the mover. The motion was carried unanimously and the Mayor briefly thanked the speakers for their appreciative references. An act of vandalism has been reported to the secretary of the Cook memorial committee in connection with the national monument at Ship’s Cove, (says an exchange). It appears that visitors to the Sounds, at Christmas time, defaced the tablet on the memorial by carving names deeply beside the inscription, concluding with these words inside the ornamental border: “Palmerston North Y.M.C.A. party, Xmas 1926-27.” On the wooden crosspiece of the anchor surmounting the memorial a great many names have been hacked. A copy of the names has been taken with a view to further action. 'At the Palmerston North Police Court yesterday, Alfred Stanley, aged 20, appeared on -two charges of calling the fire brigade out on false alarms on New Year’s Eve. The Bench imposed a hue of £2 and 10/- costs on each charge and remarked that Stanley had laid himself open to a line of £SO or one month’s imprisonment. The Legislature looked seriously upon such offences. There was always the chance of a serious fire brealcing out while the brigade was thus away.