THE FIRE BRIGADE QUESTION.
A meeting of tho members of tho Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Temple Chambers last evening, Mr W. M. Easthope in the chair, there being seventeen members present. The members, while admitting the inefficiency' of the late offioers, expressed themselves as bitterly aggrieved at the abrupt, and somewhat discourteous manner in which the Council had dismissed them, After considerable discussion it was resolved to form those, present into a Volunteer Fire Brigade. A deputation consisting of Messrs Easthope and Mansell was appointed to wait upon the Council at its meeting this evening to offer to the Council the services of the Brigade under the command of Mr James Muir, on condition that the Counoil subsidises the Brigade in the sum o£ £IOO per annum. In consideration of this sum the Brigade will undertake to relieve the Council of all responsibility in connection with extinguishing fires. It was stated that the Municipal scheme of fire extinction would' cost at least £2OO per annum, and that the offer of the Brigade would be a direct saving of £IOO a year.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2298, 18 May 1886, Page 2
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184THE FIRE BRIGADE QUESTION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2298, 18 May 1886, Page 2
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