Fire Fighting in Dunedin: From Manual Engine to Modern Motors.
On August 14, 1862, a meeting was held in the Commercial Hotel, on the site of the Hotel Carlton of to-day, to form a Fire Brigade in Dunedin. Mr James Rattray occupied the chair, and the meeting decided to set up a committee to canvass for funds. In less than a week £.103 Ils was collected, and the brigade was formed. The first practice was held on October 1, and the first manual engine was purchased two months later. This engine was attached to the brigade until 1910, when it was sold. It subsequently did duty in Trentham Military Camp during the war years. In 1863 financial difficulties overtook the brigade “ the whole of the apparatus was in the hands of the sheriff.” The bailiff was, however, a member of the brigade, and he intimated that the plant was available if required. When the brigade enters into its new quarters this month in charge of Mr J. J. Salmon it will be one of the best equipped and housed in the Dominion.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4030, 9 June 1931, Page 38
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182Fire Fighting in Dunedin: From Manual Engine to Modern Motors. Otago Witness, Issue 4030, 9 June 1931, Page 38
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