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Firemen to the Rescue

HE fire emergency brigade is well written up. Miss Allingham says "The delightful thing about the fire emergency brigade is that it is really the district funeral parlour in a newer and gayer guise. The personnel is the same and this chameleon changing from black to red, from snail’s pace to glorious speed, had a most satisfying quality of poetic justice about it. We have seen them so often advancing sadly down the narrow street; Dick Houlding in front, large and impressive, in top hat, black gloves and long frock coat, the little bier behind him covered with posies, the bearers walking on either side and Mr. Maskell himself, plump, fatherly, and firmly kind, in charge of it all. And so see them now, speeding round the Thatcher’s Corner in a crimson box, their red steel helmets glowing in the sun, théir leather. belts and shining equipment glistening, their faces confident and jovial, an odd but inspiring appearance, They won the shield for the whole district and

were heroes in the blitz.""-(" The Oaken Heart," by Margery Allingham. Reviewed by Miss G. M. Glanville, 3Y A, January 8.)

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5

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Firemen to the Rescue New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5

Firemen to the Rescue New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5

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