FIRE BRIGADES DEMONSTRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8385, 20 March 1907, Page 5

FIRE BRIGADES DEMONSTRATION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 19. The biennial demonstration under the auspices of the New Zealand Fire Brgades Association opened on the Exhibition Sports Ground, this afternoon, in anything but favourablo weather. As a consequence the attenclance was limited almost exclusively to the members of the visiting brigades, of whom, however, there was a full muster. Four events were run simultaneously during the day, only one of these, however, the Three-men Manual, being completed, in which Christchurch scored a fine win, beating Timaru by a second. The following are the'results to date of the fire brigade competitions :

Manual Engine (dry), for three men (first prize\£ls, second £B, third £5, fourth S3).— Christchurch, 47 2-ssec (including lsec penalty) 1 Timaru, 47 3-ssec (2sec penalty) 2 Napier, 48 4-ssec (lsec penalty) 3 Spit, 49 4-ssec(2see penalty) ... 4 Also competed.—Hawera, 49 2-5 sec; Masterton, 50 4-ssec (2sec penalty); Hastings, 51 l-ssec (lsec penalty); Westport, f>2sec (lsec penalty) ; Hokitika, 53 l-ssec (2sec penalty) ; Greymouth, 55 l-ssec (lsec penaty); Petone, 56 2-ssec (lsec penalty); Waipavva, 58 l-ssec; Dunedin, 61 2-ssec (lOsec penalty) ; Ashburton, 62 2-ssec (Usee penalty); Carterton, 64 4-ssec; Gisborne, 67 l-ssec (6sec penalty); Geraldine, 69 2-53QC (12sec penalty); Kumara, Kaiapoi, Temuka, Gore and Eastawri Railway were disqualified. , In the Manual Engine | (dry, for one man), competition, up to the call of time the following'brigades had competed in the order named: —Gore, 42 2-ssec; Carterton, 45sec; Rangiora, 45 l-ssec (4sec penalty); Spit, j 46 2-osec (3sec penalty); Woodville, ! | 4G 3-ssec (3sec penalty). | In the Coupling Event,' for two men, the followitng is the order of running up to the close of time: — Grey Lynn, 36 3-ssec (including lsec penalty); Petone Railway. 54 l-ssec (ssec penalty); Devonport, 44 l-ssec (3sec penalty); Rangiora, 44 3-ssec (3sec penalty); Waipawa, 45 2-ssec (6'sec penalty); Inglewood, 49sec (3sec penalty); Geraldine, 45sec (2sec penalty); 'Petone, 46 2-5 sec (ssec penalty); Ross, 55sec; Westport, 46 l-52ec (6sec penalty); Newmarket, disqualified; Feilding, 45 3-ssec penalty); Masterton, penalty); Stratford, 45 l-ssec (4sec penalty); Hawera,. 39 2-ssec (2sec penalty); ' Blenheim, disqualified; Cambridge, disqualified: Caversham, 38 l-ssec (lsec penalty); Eastown Railway (Wanganui), 48 l-ssec (6sec penalty(; Dunedin Railway,disqualified; Eden Terrace, disqualified; Auckland No. 1, disqualified; Dunedin City, 36sec (2sec penalty); Spit, disqualified; Addingtonßailway, disqualified; Hillside, 39 l-ssec (2isec penalty; Corowa (New South Wales), disqualified; Parnell, 44 4-ssec (2sec I penalty); Dunedin South, 46 4-ssec ' (Bsec penalty); Richmond, disqualified; Timaru, 39sec (3sec penalty); Waihi, 39 l-ssec (3sec penalty); Invercargill, 46sec t.3sec penalty); Clyde, 42 2-ssec (2sec penalty); Greymouth, 46 l-ssec (2sec penalty); Gisorne, idsqualified; Onehunga, disqualified; Palmerston North, 41 l-ssec (2sec penalty); Woodville, disqualified; Lyttelton, 43 3-ssec (3sec penalty). In the Hose, Reel and Ladder, for five men, the following teams in the

order given had run by the close of the afjternoon:—Palmerston North, 65 2-s'sec; Wanganui, 60 2-ssec; Naseby, 65 2-ssec; Petcne, 86sec (lsec penalty); Gisborne, 70sec; Fitzroy, 67 3-ssec; Greymouth, 60sec (2sec penalty); Christchureh, disqualified; Dunedin Railway, 69" 2-5 sec (lsec penalty); Hastings, 59 4-5 sec; Nelson, disqualified; Timavu, 60sec; Parnell, 67sec;« Whangarei, 65 2-ssec (lsec penaly). The comptetitions will be resumed to-day.