DUNEDIN FIRE BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20287, 21 December 1927, Page 17

DUNEDIN FIRE BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of th t . Dunedin Fire Board was held yesterday afternoon, and was attended by Messrs J. Wilson (chairman), W. A. Scott. J. S. Hislop, A. Burn, J. L. Salmon, and F. T. Anderson. Superintendent A. G. Napier, in his monthly report, slated that 29 calls had been answered by the brigade during the past month, of which 12 calls were to actual fires on property. The other calls accounted for six chimney fires threo bush fires, five malicious false alarms, one justifiable false alarm, one automatic fa!s e alarm, and one accidental alarm. Of the malicious-alarms-given, three were received by street alarm boxes, and two by telephone. The fire stations were all in good order. The motor appliances, the fire alarms, and the general equipment of the brigade were in good rder. The staff of the brigade was at ill strength, and generally efficient. flic St John Ambulance motors had been ailed out on 83 occasions during the month, the distance covered being miles. The i-

port was apprnvcd The General Committee 'enorted that requisitions for various stores had been approved. Account? amountin'’ to £c49C- 11s fd had been passed for payment.

It was decided that the text meeting of the hoard ho held on February 21. At the conclusion of the m-eting the hoard members visited the waterfront ‘o witness a demonstration by the new- Leyland motor pump.