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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7846, 12 June 1905, Page 4

Spoiaking ut-the Wootcott- prcscntation at the Wellington Fire Brigade the- other night, Superintendent Hugo said that lire brigade work was fast becnming a profession, and, many men of good position were tieVoting their talents to it. Within the • past live years the chief and th'ird- and fourth officers: of the London Metropolitan Brigade had been naval officers, and many jbrigodes trained cadets. In Australasia this) bad first been done in Adelaide, and at the present time there were fourteen cadets in the Melbourne brigade, Speaking of the Wellington brigade, tho superintendent stated that six of the racn were native-born New Zealanders, t«'o were Austrlaians, and the remainder were seamen from Homo. The battleship New Zealand went through her gunnery Mais at Ports l } mouth last month, and passed through, the lests very satisfactorily in all respects save one. This was in conncctipn with tho firing of the big 12-inch guns in the after barbette. When these were discharged the first tima tho crow wondered what had happened.- So great was the confusion th a t tho, men wero more or less stunned, the furniture in the ward-room was pitched about in all directions!, the stove riven, from its moorings and crockery galore smashed.

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