GISBORNE’S SUCCESS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 425, 6 March 1890, Page 2

GISBORNE’S SUCCESS.

The Gisborne Fire Brigade team’s success at the Wellington demonstration is a good proof of what may be achieved by energy and perseverance, in the exercise of which the team showed such an excellent example. It is something for a place like Gisborne to be proud of, that it can do so well against the teams representing the large cities. The success is of a kind which is the more gratifying, because there is no waste time and energy as in athletic contests which are the product of a pure love of sport. The member of a Fire Brigade makes the salvage of property, and sometimes rescue of life, his duty, and when he takes that duty upon himself without remuneration for even the time occupied—as is the case with our Volunteer Fira Brigade—he is entitled to the thanks of the whole community, and his success is also applauded by the whole community. Mr Townley, the Superintendent of the Gisborne Brigade, has been wonderfully successful in making things work smoothly and enabling the Brigade not only to send away a team that has in many events proved its superiorly over all the other teams in New Zealand, but which has attained a general efficiency which is probably unequalled by any other Brigade in New Zealand, notwithstanding that Gisborne necessarily labors under some disadvan> tages.