The Board, having assembled, utter long discussion, draft a statement of the requirements of the Volunteer Corps, under 1% circumstances, be laid before the Municipal Council.
The existing Town Hall: was built originally as a Drill Hall out of funds voted by the Ratepayers for the special purpose of constructing " Drill Hal the Hall, with the gymnasium ai club-room attached was opened to the Corps on January 1, 1900. Daring the same year, however, the Council directed that the Hall should cease to be known as the Drill Hall bat should be designated the Town Hall.
The requirements of the Volunteers have become more and more insistent with each year. When the Ratepayers first authorized the construction of a Drill Hall the strength of the Corps was 341 men, it is now 841 on the active list alone.
Since 1903 the Corps has year by year shown a steady increase, und there is no reason to suppose that with pro-[per encouragement the numbers should fever decrease, rather indeed, it ix reasonable to believe that they will still continue to increase. ing the past year 354 recruits have joined the Corps, that is to say that the annual supply of recruits alone exceeds the whole total of the Volanteer Corps when the construction of a Drill Hall wax first sanctioned.
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