FIRE PREVENTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 60, 6 March 1912, Page 5

FIRE PREVENTION.

FIRE BRIGADES’ CONFERENCE AT ROTORUA. THE ACCIDENT SOCIETY. Rotorua, March 5. At the United Fire Brigades’ Association conference) to-day Past President Robbins read an instructive paper oii some of the objects of the M.F.B.A. A committee was sot up to consider ways and means of improving fire and ambulance record, and a •subsidy of £25 was voted. The secretary was voted an honorarium of £2OO.

The election of officers resulted as follows :—President, Lieut. Leaver (Westport) unopposed; vice-presidents, Deputy-Superintendent Salmon (Dunedin) and Captain Campbell (Timaru); treasurer, Superintendent Spr.iggins. The installation of officers and the presentation of past presidents’ certificates and life membership badge to President Boyes concluded the conference. • • ■!* ■'} M '■ To-morrow the citizens entertain the delegates to a trip across the lake and on Friday Wairoa geyser will be soaped, the finale being a smoke concert on Friday night. THe annual meeting of the Fire Brigades Association Accident Assurance Society was hold this evening, Captain Hansen (Westport) presiding. The report stated that the brigades affiliated numbered 90, with a membership of 1600. The constitution amounted to £l9B lbs 2d, and the total receipts £273 12s 7d. Payments for accidents amounted to £2lO 10s. The total accumulated fund was £1723 Bs, an increase of £6l ()s“7d on the year. The management fund’s receipts, including £26 19s 5d carried forward, totalled £6B 9s sd, and the expenditure £3O l()s 7d. The position of the society warrants the adoption of a small scale of rebate, as last year; brigades not having drawn in benefits 50 per cent of total contributions, receive 25 per cent rebate; over 50 pci - cent, ,10 per cent rebate; 75 per .cent no rebate. Election of officers resulted: President, Snpt. Bellringer (Now Plymouth) ; vice-presidents, Captain Ralston (Inglewood) and Incut. Mulvihill (Kumara); treasurer, Secretary Scantlohury (Reefton); secretary, T. J. Watts (Newmarket).