Current Fire-Brigade Matters.
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Southport Town Council has resolved to purchase a second motor fire-engine.
Blackrock U.D.C., Co. Dublin, will probably erect a new fire station on the Kingstown boundary.
The authorities at Warrington are still considering the advisability of purchasing a motor fire-engine.
Stafford has its new Leyland engine, and is proud of it. The R.D.C. voted ,E200 towards the £890 which it cost.
The Fife and Clackmannan Coal Owners Association is the latest authority to purchase a rescue motor vehicle.
Havant U.D.C. has instructed its General Purposes Committee to ascertain the probable cost of a motor fire-engine for the district.
Coventry City Council is still engaged upon the consideration of motor equipment, and is making further inquiries about maintenance costs.
Wood Green U.D.C. is now asking tenders for a 50 h.p. 350-gallon fireengine. The vehicle must be fitted to carry a 30-ft. telescopic ladder, hose, jumping sheet and fireman.
The new Dennis engine at Halifax made an impressive tour of the town on the first Saturday in the New Year, and it has been put to more practical uses since that date.
Some members of the Aberavon U.D.C. are afraid that they will have to engage a man at £200 a year to work and maintain the motor fire-engine which has been ordered.
The Ottery St. Mary U.D.C. is still working, through the chairman and members of its Fire Brigade Committee, to obtain enough subscriptions to justify the purchase of a motor fire-engine.
Barnoldswick U.D.C. is proceeding with its inquiries about motor fire-engines ; Oldham, Keighley and Silsden have. been visited, and more particulars are to be obtained, before a decision is reached.
The tender of John Morris arid Sons, Ltd., has been accepted by Eccles Fire Brigade Committee, at £1110, for the supply of a six-cylinder motor fire-engine with first-aid equipment and fire-escape.
Binglev U.D.C. Brigade held its annual dinner at the beginning of the month. Superintendent Holmes did all in his power to urge the conversion of consideration for a motor fire-engine to positive action.
Some Hull people think the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, to give Hull its full name, is " 50 years behind the times." No allowance has been made in the 1913 estimates for such a purchase, although the Chairman of the Fire Brigade states that "the question of a motor engine has not been lost sight of."