THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AND THE BRIGADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1623, 1 March 1884, Page 2

THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AND THE BRIGADE.

TO THE EDITOR. Siß,~la your issue of yesterday, I notice a letter signed by the Secretary of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, in which the Borough Council is twitted with the want of liberality towards the brigade. Ido not at present intend to enter into the question of the necessity or otherwise of another fire alarm, or to throw cold water upon the subscription list just opened with a view of providing one. My object is to protest against the misrepresentations of the above-named letter. The "City Fathers" did not vote £5 either for a "sheop or fire bell," but towards the erection of a tower for the old school bell, which the Council thought would answer present requirements if erected in some other part of the town. The Secretary of the Brigade should in his letter have stated that the "'City Fathers" have quite recently voted thirty ponnds to the Brigade fund, which everybody knows must come out of the ratepayers pockets. This vote, viewed in connection with the. fact that the Borough has a bank overdraft of nine hundred pounds, and a ratepayers defaulters' list of something like.five hundred and fifty pounds, must appear as exceptionally liberal on the part of the Council. I am Ac,