THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 20 November 1880, Page 3

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.

(To the Editor of the Mocst Ida Cimoxrcr.E.) ; Sik, —I observe from your paper of last "Saturday that an "Bx-meraber" of the. Na-*nhy Volunteer Fire Brigade allows his ■tfaeings to runaway with his common Feise and judgment. Now that ho has relieved himself of his troubles by rushinginto print bareheaded, and the disturbed state of Jiis • mind is now at peaee, may I be permitted to • say a few words in explanation. This , precious fireman, whoso letter must be regarded as the ebullition of a misguided mind, j! -asserts that the Captain of the "Fire Brigade for an advance of £l2, made by the Oorpor■ation to cover the tariff charges of the uni forms recently arrived from Home, made ; them»over to the Borough Council as its property. Now this is altogether devoid of the truth. What has been done is simply that the Council .made an advance of the •usual monthly allowance ; and only in event • of the Brigade bung disbanded, a most re- . mote contingency, does its property fall into ; the possession of the Council. The whwle • complaint of this gay hydmnt-slinger is that ■ the uniform was not to become his personal when almost the entire cost of the purchase was met from funda raised by the. ■ members of this Brigade themselves, frojn <tbo imposition of lines, the monthly contri--1 buttons to the Sick and Accident Fund, and ' ■ the usual monthly allowance from the Uoun ] ■ oil. Now how much, think you, has this' pushing hose-follower actually subscribed in •cash ,to the Brigade? Oh! tell it not in ■j ruuniHcent sum of six ahilliniis •nee. sterling ; and all this for the , >f calling a i's uniform -his o-wn ' /on I<l hoc pay for the buttons ; no, e emblematic brass-of his helmet rm 1 would suggest as being >r this reckless ink slinuer, anl one •uid call his own, would be a tight a. 1 do not say that one of°the .kind indicated wou'd suit'him best. I leave the opinion, howeve;, for those who read this/ . explanation. toifor.ci.—lam, &c., E. llall, Captain N.V F.B.

Sin, —Allow,jiiu as a -member of the iNaseby Volunteer -Fire Brigade to make n few remai:k-»on a letter sijined" Ex i Member," which appeared in your issue • of Saturday -last. The writer of the . artielo in .question commences by a vigorous onslaught on the Brigade as a whole,, •:lvut immediately correcting himself, he •'denounces Captain Hall as the arch-rfiend .and author of i.he terrible wrong which, "Ex-Member" sets himself to expose, 1 ; and ]ier!iaps redress. Kovr, sir, that Cap- • tain Hull is.an efficient officer everyone who knows him. will admit, and it is.in rny opinion an uncalled tor and foolish' action , •on the part of -"Ex-Member" .to rush"; Jfito | nut wiUi his supposed grievance's tinder cover of &..nom de plume. It is the -old, old story of fools rushing in where, wise men blash to tread. It seems to .give "Ex-mc-mber" a great -deal of .trouble to think that the members' sub- • wcriptions and, fines, should have gone towards, purchasing the.nevi. uniforms. • .He might have been kind enough to state bowmany uiouth'y .subscriptions and Ones'he paid, while in the Brigade, also if ho ■ Ml ek-ar. uii_(he'. books ; lor,' Mr Editor,

with all due deference to your instructions to avoid pprsdnalities. I cannot help thinkine; that, your last week'** like My Q-raaifath'ev's'' : Olun7c, stopped short in his signature, .a-sin my humble opinion he ougV to have sign.d not Kx, but Member. I ain, &c, , PtftKfjf Squabs.