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"Fire Brigade.
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"The complaints
the
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uous
efficiency and
made against
and organisation of
the "Fire Brigade
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have
@out
to
are the
first
that
my knowledge either
"publicly or privately-
The Brigade.
, as at present constituted,
was handed down to me
predecessor
by my being in a most.
efficient state, and until the present
time I have never
other opinion
never heard
or
·
any
of any want of
promptitude when its services were
required. No fire has occurred during the last two and a
Half not speedily
which was.
"years
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extinguished..
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Under these circumstances, I have
deen
necessity for interfering with
an establishment which worked
autisfactorily. And.
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the services rendered by the Brigade
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were
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to a
great extent voluntary,
"I deemed, interference
"to be injudicious and unnecessary.
"I know
of
or
new rules
on the
arbody.
Whatcoming
"part of the Brigade
on the part of
wor
"charge of it-
ds-
those in
"Nevertheless. I shall direct an
" inquiry as to whether the rules "applicable to the Brigade
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Can be amended, and also, with a view
to a reduction of the cost, whether "the charge to the public bears an equitable proportion to that borne " by the Insurance Offices, who derive
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Do
so large a benefit from the existence "of an efficient Fire Brigade. "I thall be glad to have some " specific charge of inefficiency before
so
"
@over, as
the
any steps.
are taken to disturb a
System which has hitherto worked,
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harmoniously, and, far
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