NATIONAL FIRE COUNCIL
ADVISORY BODY FORMED tP.A.) WELLINGTON. May 14. The establishment of a National Fire Council as an advisory body to coordinate and standardise as far as possible the various phases of the firelighting services ot the Dominion, has been announced by the Minister of Civil Defence (the Hon. D. Wilson). It will be an advisory body to examine such phases of the fire-fighting service as policy, administration, training, operation' organisation, and finance. It is a purelv war-time arrangement made after full consultation and with the voluntary agreement of representatives of all ‘interests concerned. The council will comprise Messrs S. S. Dean (Wellingtonl, W. W. Callender i Dunedin i, W. H. Hall iTimaru). representing New Zealand Fire Boards, Messrs T. Jordan (Masterton). representing the New Zealand Municipal Association. L. Glover (Wellington), representing the New Zealand Fire Brigade Union Federation and superintendents and deputy-superintendents of the union, and Captain T. Watts (Auckland', representing the United Fire Brigades' Association. The Minister will be chairman and Mr J. S. Hunter. Director of National Service, deputy-chairman. Attached to the council will be a technical committee.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23948, 15 May 1943, Page 2
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