AUXILIARY FIREMEN
UNSATISFACTORY REPORT
In consequence of an unsatisfactory report regarding the efficiency of suburban non-resident auxiliary firemen, the Wellington Fire Board, acting on the recommendation.of the Superintendent (My.C. A. Woolley) today decided that the auxiliaries should bo disbanded in favour of additional residential' auxiliaries who arc to be stationed at the Constable Street station and elsewhere.
It was stilted that in nineteen calls which had been received from one district the average attendance of auxiliary firemen -was one, and no firemen had been -present at ten calls, five of which were received at night. In, seven years, stated a report, the. reel had been taken out nnly once, and that ■was when the fire had been within a hundred yards of the shed; further, the reel .had been taken out'by bystanders. A test had shown that plant' and men were available from the Constable Street station within a reasonable time.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 9
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151AUXILIARY FIREMEN Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 9
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