AIR RAID SHELTERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 233, 4 November 1940, Page 8

AIR RAID SHELTERS

PLANS FOR SYDNEY USE OF UNDERGROUND RAILWAY Plans for the protection of Sydney from air raids are being developed. They are based, in part, on the use of basements and lower floors in large building's, but mainly on the use of the Underground railway, whieh runs conveniently round the centre of the city. Blast and splinter proof surface shelters will be used in the suburbs because the main tiling there is to have shelters that are quicklj r available to the people. The Minister in Charge of National Emergency Services, Mr Bruxner, announced the appointment of a Controller of Training for the N.E.S. and of two more'liaison, officers to assist wardens in organisation and in training personnel. "The public .car. now vest assured that the N.E.S. organisation is functioning' efficiently in almost every centre," said Mr Bruxner. "Materials needed for shelters and essential stores arc now being obtained and stored in accessible places. Revision and improving are going on constantly in the light of advice and experience in England, and everything is being brought to a stale when the system can function smoothly and quickly whenever and wherever the emergency may arise, A special technical sub-committee meets weekly to consider new information on air-raid shelters and precautions Avork which comes from England."