Hardcover, Publisher: Hastings Fire Brigade, Hastings, NZ, 1986, numbered limited edition. No inscriptions, a nice and clean copy.

"A very professional publication to mark 100 years of fire fighting in Hastings NZ from 1886. In 27 chapters the history of the brigade is followed in detail, recording the progress of the organisation, obstacles, controversies, personnel, equipment, major blazes and emergencies and how it coped with the area's greatest catastrophy, the Hawkes Bay earthquake of 1931 and the fires and destruction it caused. A model for a history of its type. 338 pages including appendices, b/w photographs."