... WICK FIRE-GUARD APPOINTMENT Lieut. J. D. Smith, Royal Army Pay Corps, Edinburgh, has been appointed tire guard depot superintendent of Wick burgh. Aged fortynine. Lieut. Smith was a pilot in the R.F.C. in the last war. He has experience as fire officer ...

... TENSIVE TRAINING FOR FIRE GUARDS Comforts Model for Country Lady ruth balfour, Scotland’s W.V.S. chief, was greatly impressed by the work of the organisation in Aberdeen when she visited the city in the course of a tour in the North. During her stay in ...

... Home Guard Won’t Fire-Watch N instructor in the service of Aberdeen Education Committee at the Emergency Training Centre having refused to do fire' prevention duties because is a member of the Home Guard, the committee has decided to cah upon him to work ...

... Machine-gun fire from the sanatorium on high ground to the left became troublesome. So Lt. Shand decided to try to surround the building and silence the gun. He split up his patrol, leaving a section to cover their advance with a screening fire. They were ...

... Morrison’s Fire Prevention Order emphasises this point, and also that fire prevention involves not only fire-watching but fire-fighting as well. While the Order makes fire prevention arrangements compulsory, it is explained that “great scope ...

... GUARDING THE HARBOUR IVIEMBERS of the Police War Reserve will be used to control persons entering or leaving Aberdeen Harbour area. The Watching, Lighting and Fires Committee of the Town Council were told on Tuesday that the War Office Professional Women’s ...

... HOME GUARD APPLICATION When an application was made for the use Tarrvcroys School by the Home Guard, it was agreed to grant the request, but to inquire what was being done in other places with regard to charges for cleaning, heating and lighting. The ...

... GUARD KEEPS ON SMILING By A.K. escape, if you like to put it that way. To start going to school again in middle age is in itself good training for the mind. To mix with all sorts md classes of people, mainly strangers, is a salutary and refreshing experience ...

... as he had slate from the budding, which is brandished it freely none the tured above. Eventually the motor fire et-oape '* iL I 1 from chief fire elation, and as 1 was uncoupled and leaned against ik o the private ventured along the jl slates and pained ...

... MUST OBEY HOME GUARD A warning that the public must obey the Home Guard and do what they are told was given Mr W. K. M'Fadyean. the fiscal, in Elgin Sheriff Court on Thursday. Members of the Home Guard, he said, are voluntarily carrying out very arduous ...

... Private Rose, Scots Guards. Mrs Rose, Richmondhill Nursing Home, has received intimation that her son. Private Alexander Rose, the Soots Guards, has been wounded, and now in hospital in Berwick-on- Twoed. Private Rose has been wounded oo the back. He ...

... Fire at Nurseries The boilerhouse, store and a considerable part of a large glass house were destroyed on Friday by an outbreak of fire at the Royal Deeside Nurseries. Cults, occupied by Mr Alexander Hay. Shortly before seven o’clock the outbreak was ...