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"Fire Brigade.

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"The complaints

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uous

efficiency and

made against

and organisation of

the "Fire Brigade

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have

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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.

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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-

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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

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@over, as

the

any steps.

are taken to disturb a

System which has hitherto worked,

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