CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6] — Page 259

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should be well and fairly tested and its efficiency placed bergond doubt before complete reliance be placed upon it..

No Fire Escapes exist in connexion

with the Government Fire Brigade,

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from bins. The monthly parades

are

utterly less.

as

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means

of

"drilling the Brigade, or testing and Apparatus ; the

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object of them is apparently to

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get up

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is there

a

single

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densely crowded native town where

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for them.

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Fire Ladders - New

ones

are

required

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which shall contine strength with

lightness, and of length sufficient

them to recich the highest

to enable

roof.

"The Constitution and Drill of the Brigade

is most defective.

No special

are

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uor

has

anyt

· duty is assiqued to any officer

member of it,

in Connexion with it

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any particulars

adaptation, to the work expected

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a

little

water into the harbour, and get home again within

an

hour!

The extra pay allowed to members

of

the police force who belong to the Fire Brigade is insufficient

to compensate them for the usual amount of damage done to their

temptation

clothing, and thes exists for

uten

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to wade their duty.

ts,

whilst under. existing arrangement

no means

absentees..

are taken to discover

The Water System is extremely

ill-adapted to the requirements

of a

large City in case

of a Conflagration.