MASTERTON FIRE BRIGADES.
The Pipe Services, A meeting of the ]?iro Brigade Pommittee of the Mas'terwp Borpugh . Ooiinoil was held last (Moiiday)'e?enA letter was read from the Volunteer Fire Brigade, asking the Committee to draw, repnjr and re T pjiH&the stand-pipe in Queen-street, wbll.was not wpi'lmig satisfactorily at the present time, It was decided, upon the recommendatinnof Captain Pickering, to sink a veil bb det p as possible, the water being pumped out, as the work proceeds, bythe Jubilee engine. It was also resolved to put in pipes to serve tho Jubilee aa well as the manual engine, Hitherto the Jubilee has had.,to getim supply of p|er from BenaU's creek or ith'n creak id Bannister-nfee{,'atid to combat a fire in the'centre of (lie town it would 'be impossible for the Jubilee engine tp put on more than one jet of water, With a well in the centre of Queen Street a four-jet supply wouldbe ppsBiblo. " '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4187, 9 August 1892, Page 3
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155MASTERTON FIRE BRIGADES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4187, 9 August 1892, Page 3
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