Clive Horwood’s recollections — page 2

-2- As the ladies were also interested in supplying food and tea at fires people gave us funds to hold, so we appointed a treasurer, one of our members, Ernest Hallistein. He was always a little tight with money so made a good treasurer. We raised money ourselves after this and purchased overalls for our fire fighters as fire fighting was hard on clothes. At this time in the 1960’s we had some very dedicated and hard working members such as our President Ernie Overs, David Kennedy and many others. David Kennedy who ran a landscaping and stone quarry business in Glenhaven would fall any dangerous trees which were a fire hazard, with gelignite. We also had Ray Bonnard with his welding and engineering business to add brackets and racks to our fire tanker for equipment and other members to maintain our wireless equipment, chain saws etc. Later on, as our Fire Control Officer, Lionel Sith improved all the Baulkham Hills Bush Fire Brigades, he formed a Headquarters Brigade at Castle Hill and made an excellent job of getting co-operation between the residents of the Shire and Council. As a new Bush Fire Brigade Headquarters has been built at the corner of Annangrove Road and Kenthurst Roads and Lionel Smith has retired in Kenthurst, I am sure Lionel can look back with pride and great satisfaction on the wonderful organisation he formed our Bush Fire Brigadesinto. Clive Horwood, 2001