EXEMPTION WANTED FOR FIREMAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1010, 13 November 1917, Page 3

EXEMPTION WANT ED FOR FIREMAN.

(Pbh Paras Association.) (TIIUSTCHiTK H, Nov. Id. Superintendent 'Warner thinks ihe Government should give earnest consideration to the.question of exemption Irani military service of the hivmen in the chid centres. The Brigade was hampered in its work at last, night s lire by the want of experienced firemen. The question <n Hie purchase ol iho Canterbury I lull site by Hie dly has ttlrcadv been revived, some citizens expressing themselves as favourable in the idea ol securing it as a Sown Hat! .site. ’i'he matter was mentioned to the Mayor, who expressed the opinion that it, was as yet premature to dismiss the proposal. The site was not under oiler, and it was not known yet what the Fuller Proprietary intended to do. The Ices of trained firemen was severely fell in connection with the bhi/.c at LdI mond’s hardware warehouse in bhuuMiu on Friday. Superintendent Napier, of to" l.'imedin City Fire Brigade. says the lire dive- lie' oommimiiy a severe and mas vary lesson. The milharv have _ taken from die brigade a numlsar of experienced men,and their loss has been severely fell. “I wish," he- said, ‘‘to recognise the work done by the men belonging to the brigade they de, excellent service; but. ihyv are ino-iiy le w hands, without tlie lraiuiu;; that a lire such a.-, (his gives, and hj is only by such t.raniing that the highest elticiency can I e reached. They will be better for Ilu ir wp ;!■ once, I -lit I fee! very strongly that tie- Gy cannot, afford in wail for big lives for teaching purposes, t don’t under-value my men; nor say a word against tli<‘m; what ! uo wish to impress on the aulhorilie- i-- that nil'll not trained to big fires cannot he so expert in such lire-, as men who have been illiough tin- experience.