‘■A peculiar and serious position has arisen as far as the local volunteer lire brigade is concerned,” said the Mayor of New Brighton, Mr E. L. Smith. at a meeting of the Borough Council. "With all the men in fulltime employment, we have, as far as the call to fires in the day time is concerned, only one available man, the engineer, to respond to a call. There is no difficulty about fires at night. We cannot expect the volunteer brigade men to leave their work and stand by during the day. The council is advertising lor volunteers to act as auxiliaries.” If volunteers could not be obtained, the council would have to pay one active man to be on duty during the day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 7
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