Fire Brigade Conference
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) DUNEDIN, March 8
The Fire Brigades Conference was resumed this evening. An Additional £10 was voted to the secretary for his assistance. After a vote of thanks, the annual meeting of the insurance society was held. The report stated that notwithstanding the unusually large number of claims there was a credit balance of £880 l0s 1d. The report was adopted.
The election of office bearers ranked:
President —Captain Strude’ Devonport.
Vice presidents—Lieut. Baler Gore and Mr Scantlebury, Reefton.
Treasurer – Captain Smith, Christchurch.
Trustee—Mr Robbins, Hawera.
Secretary – Mr J G Gilberd
Papers Past, Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 220, 13 March 1905, Page 2
AUCKLAND SENSATIONS. Telegraph. Press Association.
Copyright Auckland,
This Day.
A young man named William Liddle died in the hospital from the results of a bush felling accident at Poti.
A motor car, driven by two men (names unknown) collided with a horse, upsetting a trap and the occupants, Mr and Mrs Myles and family. Mrs Myles received a broken collar bone and fractured hip, and is in a rather serious condition. By a fire at Onehunga the school was destroyed, also the latrines, which had cost £50. The Brigade prevented the spread of the fire. Incendiarism is suspected.
The Masonic Hotel at Devonport had a marvellous escape from destruction by fire on Saturday night. A two-storey detached building was destroyed.
Search parties have been out since Thursday night for Elizabeth Peak, aged 27, daughter of John Peak, Newton. She was recently in a melancholy state. There is not the slightest clue to her whereabouts.
Papers Past, Observer, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 11 November 1905, Page 7
That the question of water pressure will be a burning one at the next meeting of the Devonport Borough Council. Plenty of pressure when the garden hose is running, and none when the fire breaks out.
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