Author(s): Allan Bruce

NZ History

This book covers the past 62 years when, among those times of progress and innovation, the nation's fire brigades also experienced a sequence of tumultuous periods of mismanagement and administrative incompetence resulting from insupportable political interference, with some proposals and in many instances implementation so lacking in clear vision that they were never, ever going to work. The extent of this ineptitude was so deep and repercussions so wide that it may well be unparalleled in any fire service in the world. -- Back cover.