MASTERTON FIRE BRIGADE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 5

MASTERTON FIRE BRIGADE.

REPORT BY INSPECTOR HUGO. ''£Bt Telkgbaph. — Special to Tub Post.} MASTETtTON This Day. In his report to the Masterton Fire Board yesterday re the fire- service of the borough, Inspector Hugo Bays : "As a body the personnel of the brigade can hardly be improved. They appear to be an active, intelligent body of men, of athletic build and good stamina, who seem to take considerable interest in their work. They are, however, badly in need of instruction in, drill — in the very primary Bteps of fire brigade work — most particularly in the important matter of lite-saving and preserration, which has hitherto been entirely neglected. In reference to the high press*A. water supply, this is a very weak poTit in the fire protection of the town, the average pressure of 55 lbs being too low to be of good service at a fir© of any magnitude. The necessity is there* fore urgent of having the fire engine put into good order as soon as possible, and reserving it for fire purposes only. The reticulation is bad on account of the large number of three-inch mains at present laid down. Nothing less than four-inch mains should be put in for fire purposes."