A RECENT mail brought news of the resignation of Captain Shaw, the gallant head of the London Fire Brigade After Captain Shaw’s thirty years’ honorable and distinguished service in the Brigade, there was naturally some excitement over the affair, and the authorities were blamed in the matter. It now appears that the resignation had nothing to do with the fire policy, but is a question as to whether or not he was his own master. He went off for a few days’ sport with a friend, he was then reprimanded for going without leave, and resigned. He insisted that he was his own master, while the Committee insisted that he was the servant of the Council. In the course of an interview he was himself emphatic on the point that there were a dozen other men quite competent to take the vacant p&sition, and that his resigation would not have a detrimental effect upon the acknowledged excellence of the Brigade.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 659, 15 September 1891, Page 2
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160Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 659, 15 September 1891, Page 2
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