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COUNTRY FIRE BRIGADES CENTRAL AUTHORITY SOUGHT Special to the Daily Times OAMARU, Apl. 15. “It is hoped that the necessary legislation providing for adequate facilities for the smaller fire brigades in country towns, which could not form a Are board because the population was under 1000, would be passed this year,” sai'd Mr R. Girling-Butcher. inspector of fire brigades, at the conference of the Southern Districts’ Fire Brigades’ Sub-association of Otago and Southland at Oamaru to-night. It was probable that the legislation would set up a central authority responsible for training the fire service. This body could reasonably be expected to render assistance to such bodies as district fire brigade associations because it was generally recognised that competition work was the most efficient means of training brigades which had few fires.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 8
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