RAID SHELTERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 40, 15 April 1942, Page 6

RAID SHELTERS

BUILDING IN LONDON

"Raiding Avill find London infinitely better prepared than she was a year ago. Enrolment and training' of firewatehers arc the most conspicuous of our preparations. The strengthening of surface shelters to resist earth shock still goes on, and no doubt we shall always be finding ways of improving them as long as the war lasts. There is no longer any need for extensive building of new shelters. There is now sleeping room in shelters for 4,772,000 people—some 80 per cent of Lcndoil's civil defence region. The provision of bunks continues. Heating, light and ventilation are being continually improved, and electric power points have been installed in ali shelters habitualy used by .">0 .or more people. There are feeling 1 acidities in public shelters for nearly !).'],ooo people, including canteens in ' ;m.S of the 1100 she!teis which accommodate 200 people or more. No doubt there will always be more to do. but at any rate shelter life in London this winter "will be a great deal safer, healthier and happier than it was a year ago.*'—''Manchester Guardian"' London correspondent.