The Fire Board.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1451, 27 March 1911, Page 2

The Fire Board.

What has bewitched the Feilding Fire Board to induce the members to pass over at last meeting questions which have become a matter of public notoriety in Feilding. One member of the Board residing in Feilding stated openly recently that he had prepared a report to submit to the meeting upon certain matters which had come under his notice that would compel radical alterations in the personnel of the Brigade. Yet not a word was said at the meeting about the scandal involved in the reporti, and we can almost believe that the member in j question was persuaded to drop the ' matter. That something should bo done to alter the present condition. of things is very plain to those who have been watching what has been going {on for the last six months, and if ' members of the Board are aware of this, then all we can say is that their discretion is considerably greater than '• their valour. If the local members ' who know of these things have not brought them under the notice of their Wellington colleagues, then the j blame of a most -unsatisfactory state ' of affairs must rest on their should- ' ers, and it is time someone disillusionI el the visiting members of the Feild- ! ing Fire Board and proved to them ' that it is about time they thought a little for themselves.