VOLUNTEER FIREMAN
Objection By Union The Christchurch Fire Brigades’ Union objected to a man employed in the watchroom being a volunteer fireman, the Chief Fire Officer (Mr L. R. Osmond) reported to the Fire Board last evening. The man was employed under the clerical award, but ivas a member of the firemen’s union. He had given 30 years’ service as a volunteer fireman, and members of his family among them had more than a century of volunteer service. The union was now “threatening to take action,” although Mr Osmond did not know what was proposed. The man did his eight hours’ work in the watchroom, and what he did in his own time seemed to be his own affair. “God strike me pink, and they make an issue of that!” Mr W. E. Olds commented. It might be that the union felt that as the man was a union member he should be paid for any fire fighting, Mr T. F. Perkin said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 18
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