WORK OF FIRE BRIGADES.
Our fire brigades, with tlieir ceaseless clamour for water to woi'k with, are thus the pioneers of sanitation as well as our guardians from the most devastating and dreaded of elements, for a bountiful supply of water is one of the first evidences of a higher civilisation, being one of the few luxuries which are wholly good. -Sfei.-the most up-to-date engines and alarm system, backed by inexhaustible mainsp»could do very little in fighting fire were it not for the human factor, of which firemen themselves never speak,, and of which they appear quite unconscious.—‘New Zealand Herald.’
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2452, 17 March 1909, Page 2
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100WORK OF FIRE BRIGADES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2452, 17 March 1909, Page 2
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