CIVIL DEFENCE SCHEME
AIR RAID SHELTERS PROVISION FOR 6,000,000 (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. .1. The Minister-in-Charge of Civil Defence, Sir John Anderson, referring in the House of Commons yesterday to the civil defence organisation, said that £70,000,000 had' .been allocated in a .single financial year. There had been a noteworthy response to the call for national service. He also .stated that of the 2,500,000 steel shelters ordered, 1,000,000, capable of sheltering (>,000.000 people, had been delivered. As from next month steel shelters would be made available to the local authorities for purchase by people with higher incomes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 8
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101CIVIL DEFENCE SCHEME Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 8
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