WANGANUI FIRE BRIGADE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 30 October 1882, Page 2

WANGANUI FIRE BRIGADE.

ANNTJAL TOURNAMENT...".:; , The annual tournament :of the Wanganui Fire Brigade took place on Saturday afternoon. The weather was all that could bo desired, and the different competitions were witnessed by a large number of spectators. The brigade mustered at their station, St. HUI-strpet; at 3 o'clock, and from thence proceeded to Taupo Quay, in drags,' with their hose reek and hook and ladder attached, headed by the City Eiflesbandi' ".Owing to a number of the members of if p.' 2 Company being .absent [from/ town,' 'the foreman of that company decided not to atart his men for any of the competitions. The Fire Police were in attendance and • kept the street clear while the tourna-ment-took place. At intervals • during the afternoon the C% Rifles Band played a number of selections. Captain Cummins and Lieutenant ' Spindle acted as judges, and Messrs Drew and : Kohn as timekeepers. The name's of the members of the companies who competed are as follows :— No. 1 Company —Foreman Thurlow, Firemen Wiods, Hackett, Copeland, M. Blyth, W. Blyth, Kitchen, Devenport, Keesing, andßeddell. No. 3 Company — Foreman Bush, Firemen Shavpe, James, McGonagle, Beauchamp, Wild, Thomas, . Hogg, Townsend, and West^ Alarm Competition. — Seven men from eaoh company, dressed in plain clothes, will start from a point 50 yards from their uniforms, consisting of cap, tunic, belt, and spanner ; after dressing, bring their reel from a point 100 yards distant to the dressing point. Best time to win. No. 1 Company; 43 1-osecs. No. 3 Company, 42 4-sseos. ', Hojie; Competition-. — Ten men from each company ran 100 yards with the reel to the fire plug, laying out 120 feet of hose. Branch fixed, and full jet turned on, 4 points. Keel orer a similar J* me and connect to stand-pipe, and play' full .jet through both lines, 3 points. Make tip and return with reel to starting point, 2 points. Company. Ist water. I 2nd water. I Finish No. 1 45sdc 50 4-ssdo 2.4ftm No. 3 43scc | 63seo | 3.4 m Ladder Practice.— Ten men from each company trill ran 50 yards with ' hook and ladder carriage to a building ; erect two lines of ladders to a parapet, six yards apart ; eight mon will run over No. 1 and down. No. 2 ladder, making

the" (M<&it; twice j the. foreman -of the :. company 'must, see, that every precaution for safety istak'enj by personally inspecting the coupling of the ladders, and -^haying , a .. man, placed at the foot, of " each.- , Replace .■ ladder and return, to starting, point. Best time, to win. ■ 4~ 'No.vi; Company; 2min 2 2-6 sec. ■/"No/ 3 Cbmpauy,' 2min 4-ssec. 'Ladder and' Hose Pbaotice. — Ten men from each company will run 100 yards with reel to .plug, insert stand pipe '.and- lay . put , 100 ' feet, of- hose ; fix , double unions and lay out two lines each of 60 feet; erect a 42 feet ladder to the parapet of building ;|branch. and hose of one. length, to, be takenup by hauling line.;, play two full jets (4 points) ; make up^ and.r eturn- with- reel to .starting pdint (3 points). •';'■ '■..'■' 'Coiripa'ny. Ist water.' Finish.' ?! N/o. I l ''.'- 'Imin9sec 3.81-smin " x ,1T0'."3 " lmhi 15 l-ssec 3.l9mim T&onjTs.-^-Theifbllo^ing are the points sdpred^in j'th'e ..different, competitions. N;oLl .'Company— Ist ' competition, . 0; . 2niL;s;'.3rd,:o;..4th, 7;. total, 12. No. 3 Company— lst competition, 4 ; 2nd, 0;, 3rd, 4; 4th,. 0; -.total, 8.; . „,'fv ■ .' .. ' ; .. „ -Two protests were entered: Foreman Thrnlow.of the No. 1 Company, protested against the No. • 3, Company for not" completing 'their dressing in the Alarm Competition as agreed: Foreman' Bush ■of the No; 3 Company protested against the No. 1 Company net' using, in the Ladder and Hose contest, a ..line to haul . the' branch and hose 'to the. parapet as per the rules. THe committee met in the evening a,n^. r 'eitpv" carefully considering the protests allowed both, ,thus .making the . scores of the two companies equal.- The companies - have agreed to decide, the' supremacy 'between; the Friday evening affefithe next monthly, practice.' '■■ ,• •■