NEW WARNING SIRENS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20660, 10 January 1942, Page 6

NEW WARNING SIRENS

LAST NIGHT’S TRIAL

FURTHER INSTALLATIONS

A successful trial was carried , but last night of threguew warning sirens situated in Te Hapara, Victoria Township and Kaiti. . The installation'pf two further sirens is anticipated, one at Whataupoko and Ibe other at Mangapapa, in order to give a complete coverage of the towns. The sirens tested last night were heard over wide areas, but it is fearfed

that on a stormy -day -of" night the whole of the town might not hear the signals, which are 'designed to warn the residents-o'f ; an "occasion of emergency. If the two additional'warn'ing devices are "installed, it is expected that the work will be carried out Within" a week, arid thert a full-scale trial of all five additional sirens, together with the fire siren, which was not operating last -night, will "be staged. Such an occasion should provide the residents df Gisborne with a-feast-of-siren blowing that they have never heard before, an; •• ■ / >•'(

Provision also'’is being made for the installation of two sirens oh cars. One car is'already equipped, and a second installation’is ekpCctod shortly. These car sirens will-be reserved for u's£'<in case a dislocation of electric power makes thfe use of the stationary sirens impossible."' ‘ - ' ' -‘v -'-