EVACUATION!

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 57, 25 May 1942, Page 5

EVACUATION!

CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTION JLYDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY' CAMPS Following up its previous discussion on evacuation the local Awake New Zealand committee last Friday evening considered a sound suggestion from the Rangitaiki delegates that certain, areas should be made available for temporary camps, in places of comparative safety. By this mefans it was claimed definite arrangements could be made to transfer women and' children; leaving the members of the Home Guard free to answer the order of mobilisation without undue worry for their families. Mention was made of an area some distance inland from Te Teko which the owner was prepared to place at the disposal of the E.P.S. or any such organisation. This could be put down in potatoes and levelled preparatory to the establishment of sites. "One Wainui resident," said Mr Littlejohn, "has already completed a safe little retreat in the bush for his qwn family, which is stocked with food and made reasonably comfortable." He added that he considered many farmers could assist themselves by doing the same. Mr Watson agreed that farmers should have an individual site for retirement for their families, in their minds eye. The committee agreed that as evacuation would be inevitable in the event of an attack, it should not be aimless, but carried out on definite lines. It wasi decided! to write acquainting the County E.P.S. of the Te Teko offer and to seek information | on the whole question of evacuation.