FIRE-FIGHTING IN HAMILTON

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 12

FIRE-FIGHTING IN HAMILTON

AN AWKWARD PROBLEM (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Friday action should the Hamilton Fire Brigade take if a serious fire occurred outside of the borough? A meeting of the Hamilton Fire Board discussed this question, to-day, when the chairman. Mr. J McKinnon, mentioned that there were a , -lumber of important buildings within a few miles of Hamilton which might require the services of the brigade in the event of an outbreak of fire. The Waikato Hospital, for instance, was inside the Waipa County boundaries, while were the Hamilton Racing Club’s buildings at Te Rapa, the Matangi Glaxo factory, and the Horotiu freezing works, all needing the Hamilton brigade’s services in the case of an outbreak. The brigade, continued the chairman, would not hesitate to turn out for a fire at the hospital, but -he Fire Board received no compensation in connection with that institution, at whose disposal its services were. No success had attended an effort tc come to a.n arrangement with the Waikato Hospital Board. Further consideration of the question was deferred until after the Fire Boards’ conference, at which the question of brigades operating In outside districts will be raised. Coast scoring. Turner in the forward line stood out, and Gibson was prominent but forgot his shooting boots Edmunds and Moon, the fullbacks, proved great defenders and kickers, while Brolly and the other halves fed the forwards well. Coasters shoved strategy in breaking up the combination of the visitors, but their passing often was intercepted, except in the latter smges, when they attacked with vim, and had the visitors properly wor-

The game was well controlled and spectacular, and it was hard throughtoeing no “beg pardons” or let offs. Erskine was good at fullback , ever palled on, and it would be invidious to Individualise among the forward dsvision of the Coast ream ever* man doing .well, ' ' eam ’