FIRE BRIGADES' BILL.
SOME CAUSTIC CRITICISM.
(By Telegraph—Parliamentary Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, Octobers.
In the Legislative Council, to-day, the second reading of the Fire Brigades' Bill was carried, after a brief discussion, in which it came in for some caustic criticism by the Hons. J. B. Callan and S. T. George and others, who thought the Government, instead of trying to patch up last year's defective Act, should have repealed it and brought down a complete measure, which would be reasonable and workable. The Hon. S. T. George described last year's Act as a disgrace to the Statute Book. His line of argument was that the Government should contribute very much more than it proposed to do, and that the insurance companies should not be compelled to minimise their business by being compelled to contribute towards the suppression of fires. The Attorney-General said that the whole of the objections raised could be threshed out, by the Statutes Revision Committee, to which he proposed to refer the Bill.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8548, 4 October 1907, Page 5
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165FIRE BRIGADES' BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8548, 4 October 1907, Page 5
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