The following order is issued with the ap-Proval of the Chairman of the Coun:
When the Volunteer Corps or any portion of it is called out for Active Service, members of the Corps who are also members of the Fire Brigade will not leave their Posts to attend (0 fires without the special permission of the Senior Officer present: but when i dividual members of the Volunteer Corps are told off for special duty (such az guarding Magazines during fires, &c.) care will be taken select men who are not members of the Fire Brigad According to Volunteer General Order Ni 316, dated Ist August, 1894, the term Active Service" is applied to those cozes only in which the Volunteers are called out for actual duty under instructions from the Chairman of the Council. In all other cases when the Fire Alarm sounds during a parade of the Volunteers, all members of the Fire Brigade and of the Police Force (except Artillery Drivers) will be at once dismissed.
L. Moone, B. A. CLARKE, Chie Engineer, Major,
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