PAEROA FIRE BRIGADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20721, 14 November 1930, Page 12

PAEROA FIRE BRIGADE.

INCIDENTS AT MEETING. RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY. [nt telegraph.—own correspondent.] PAEROA. Thursday. Proceedings nt the annual meeting of tho Paeroa volunteer firo brigade last evening did not run as smoothly as usual. Deputy-Superintendent E. Martin moved that tho superintendent, -Mr. W. Moore, be returned to that office without election. This \vrt3 carried unanimously. Tho election of deputy-superintendent resulted in a lin bet ween Mr. Martin and Foreman Wilton. Mr. Moore rejected the suggestion that ho should draw from a hat, and used his casting vote m favour of Mr. Wilton. Objection was taken to the superintendent using bolli an ordinary and a casting vote, but he insisted that ho was entitled to them. Tho election of foreman resulted in Fireman H. Robinson being returned. When it was proposed that tlie secretary, Mr. Malcolm, bo requested to carry 011 in that capacity, ho roso and tendered his resignation from the brigado as a pro-' test against tho bailing of tho messenger from tho right to vote. It was the first occasion, said Mr. Malcolm, on which a messenger of this brigade had been deprived of that right. Mr. Mooro stated that tho secretary's resignation was accepted, in spite of tho expressions of regret from all parts of tho meeting, and debarred the secretary from recording his vote on any further motions before the meeting. Several nominations for tho position of secretary lapsed, Fireman Ward being declared by tho superintendent as actingsecretary.