GREYTOWN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 7

GREYTOWN

FIRE BRIGADE MEETING GOLD STARS FOR MEMBERS. (“Times-Age” Special.) The monthly- meeting of the Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade was held last night when Superintendent J. Wood presided over a full attendance. It was decided to hold over till practice night the question of sending a team to the New Zealand Fire Brigade demonstration. The secretary was instructed to apply for two Gold Stars, Messrs W. Gray and E. Boyd having completed 25 years’ service with the Greytown brigade. It was t greed to invite the senior Boy Scouts to join the brigade for instruction in connection with their Fireman’s Badge. COLLAPSE OF CLIFF LUCKY ESCAPE OF FISHING PARTY. Mr and Mrs M. Bouzaid. of Greytown, were fishing at Lake Ferry yesterday afternoon when they were nearly caught in a big slip which came down the cliff. They were in a boat under the cliffs when small stones started to fall in the sea around them. Mr Bouzaid did not feel alarmed but his wife felt uneasy so they started to row towards the spit. They had just reached the spit when a big slip came down. The height of the cliff is over 100 feet. Mr Bouzaid estimated that several thousand tens of earth and rock came down. This caused a wave inside the spit about four feet high and carried their boat right up the spit, leaving it high and dry. Mr Bouzaid noticed that another man who was fishing from the rocks had run from the slip in the direction of Whangai-Muana.