FIRE BRIGADE MATTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 May 1939, Page 8

FIRE BRIGADE MATTERS

BOROUGH COUNCIL’S AGREEMENT WITH BRIGADE The following is the text of the proposed agreement between the Motueka Borough Council and the Motueka Volunteer Fire Brigade:— (1) Status of the Brigade:—The Brigade to become a Municipal Fire Brigade to be known as the Motueka Volunteer Fire Brigade:—

(2) Control of Brigade.—(a) The Brigade to be under the control of the council: (b) the following to be the officers of the Brigade:—

(1) Superintendent, appofcited by the Council; (2) Deputy Superintendent, appointed by the Brigade; (3) First Station Officer, appointed by the Brigade; (4) Second Station Officer, appointed by the Brigade. In addition, the Brigade shall elect a foreman, secretary, treasurer, and

(c) The Brigade to consist of not; more than twenty men and less than sixteen together with two messengers, who shall be at least 14 years of age; (d) the Brigade’s recreation fund to be under the control of Brigade members only. Into this fund shall be paid donations. subsidies and moneys raised by the Brigade. Any moneys obtained for services at fires outside the borough shall be paid to the council who shall ifsuch moneys are in excess of the prescribed fee for attendance at such fires pay the balance to the Brigade’s recreation fund: <e) all engines, hoses and equipment at present used by the Brigade shall be vested in the Borough Council; (f) the council sliall insure all members of the Brigade, such insurance to cover attendance at fires and practice from the time a member leaves his home or work until he returns, and also attendance at competitions; <g) all questions of policy or extension of the activities of the Brigade or acquisition of plant shall be referred Jo a Fire Prevention Committee consisting of his Worship the Mayor, ex officio, two councillors appointed by the council, the superintendent, deputy superintendent and station officer, and the committee shall make recommendations to the council.

REMUNERATION (3) Remuneration of officers:—The superintendent shall receive £ls per year. The deputy superintendent shall receive £5 per year. Members undertaking watchkeeping duties and sleeping on the station shall be paid £l3 per year, payable monthly. (4) Absence of machine from station. —No fire engine shall be taken away for any purpose other than attending a fire or a practice without the consent of the town clerk, and then only one machine may be taken away at a time. If the Ford machine should be the machine to be taken away the council truck together with the hose and equipment must bd left in the engine room. <5) Pumping pipes out:—The Brigade shall each practice night, weather permitting, pump out at least two pipes and shall furnish a report to the council on the forms provided that such pipes are in order. For such service the council shall pay the Fire Brigade the sum of £l2 15s per year. The machines shall not be used to pump any pipe other than lire pipes. The fee for filling tanks shall be 7s 6d per hour, 2s 6d to be paid to the fireman attending the pump.