FIRE SERVICE
THE EMERGENCY CALL IN WELLINGTON. POOR RESPONSE THUS FAR. (Ti.v Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Commenting on the poor response in Wellington to the call for volunteers for the Emergency Fire Service, a fortnight’s campaign producing only a fifth of the 475 men required, Mr S. S. Dean, president of the New Zealand Fire Boards’ Association, today urged stronger measures to provide an effective service. He suggested that when the next ballot was taken, men rejected for overseas should be given the alternative of Territorial or Emergency Fire Service.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1941, Page 6
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91FIRE SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1941, Page 6
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