A FIRE BRIGAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 179, 5 July 1883, Page 2

A FIRE BRIGAD.

We had almost ma»<e up our minds to write no more on this subject, as onarnest and repeated agitation seemed "& be^finawling. . No*. howeTer, ther* •is a cnance of a Fire Brigade being es tablishetHo-Balinerston. Or Walker moved m the matter last night with his customary energy and enthusiasm, an«i if he did opt exactly Carry rut what be >riginally intended, his- action was the means of inducing the Council to movn at least a step m the right direction ft was resolved that the sum of £30 be voted as a grant m aid towards the expenses contingent upon the establishment of a Fire Brigade m Palmerston, the Mayor and Cr Bnklson to take the matter m hand. Cr Febgusoh propounded the soKto-speak ante-dilurian suggestion that four or five water-barrel engines, simila he haJjshoald ba obtained, whir a he maintained would answer all required purposes. Cr Walkeb, m an amusing apeeoh, reminded the Council of how Gulliver extinguished the conflagration m Lilliput, as told by Dean Swift, drawing a comparison which Cr Ferguson did not seem to relish, but which prpvoked considerable merriment. However, we trnst the matter is now fairly under way, and tinder the good hands of Mr Shjblsok *n.i the Mayor, backed up by the Bpontaneoas co-operation of the townsfolk, we trust before many days to see the nucleus of a-Fire Brigade successfully formed. No question' is of more vital importance, as the wonderful immunity from fires Palmerston has hitherto enjoyed, could not m reason be expected to continue much longer. We bespeak tor the movement the warmest "' support and ready assistance of the whole com* munity. ,-: - .•.; , ..■- -