CHRISTCHURCH FIREMEN.
THE TROUBLE ENDED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. 'lt was ruifioured in town to-day that there still existed a, number of vacancies in the Fire Brigade staff as the outcsme of the trouble with the men and the action taken thereon by the Fire Board. A reporter made enquiries in regard to these rumours, and was informed that not only had all the vacant positions been filled, but they could have been ; filled over again from amongst the men applying. There were only three auxiliaries at Sydenham, and all ihad left, but one ihad signed the requisition and ; practically had to go, and now two men were standing by in the interim. In conversation with the reporter Superintendent Warner considered that the rumours were so ridiculous that ihe did not regard them as worth answering. The Brigade received a call this morning to an outbreak in Murray Place, St. Albans, where a fence ihad caught, alight through the owner having placed against it lighted soot 'lie had taken from a chimney. Two motors fully manned were despatched to the scene, and the conflagration was quickly subdued after a few feet of the fence had been destroy-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 127, 16 October 1912, Page 8
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199CHRISTCHURCH FIREMEN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 127, 16 October 1912, Page 8
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