LOST OPPORTUNITY?
E.P.S. AND EARTHQUAKE (0.C.) NAPIER, Friday. "I am greatly concerned whether the E.P.S. would function in a civil emergency, because of the personal element which creeps in," said Colonel C. V. Ciochetto, regional E.P.S. commissioner, in an address to a joint counties conference held in Napier to-day. He added that it all depended on whether the personnel could forget for the time their homes and families, which in an emergency would have to take second place. It was necessary in a civil emergency that the E.P.S. should swing into action without calling on the army. The speaker referred to the recent earthquake in Masterton. It had been a glorious opportunity for the E.P.S. to go into action arid do a job, but the E.P.S. had failed to function to the satisfaction of the army, and so the latter had been forced to take over.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 6
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146LOST OPPORTUNITY? Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 6
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