REPRESENTATION OF OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE.: Memorandum by the Home Secretary.

year. In the course of the discussion they suggested that the two bodies - the Officers' Association and the Officers' Section of the Union - should set up a Joint Committee which should be ecognised as the channel for representations on behalf of officers generally, instead of the Association. I intimated that I did not think such an arrangement would be satisfactory; and that in my view it was reasonable and proper, in a disciplined service, that the officers and the lower ranks should have separate representative organisations.