AIR RAID PRECAUTION
— -rt I British Phn i« Paril Britpu'g great £35,00(1,000 air i&ids preeautions plau is likely tp be held up by a new we-can ' t>pay-the-bill revOR. Loeal aufcherities have already declined to proeeed witk the worlc till tho Government say how the expense is to be met. Autboritative forecastg tbat the Oabinet wiU shortly aunouaee a deeisioii to bear only half tbe cust alarmed several of tbe big wmmeipalities, "It is an impossible bTLrden,,J said oue provineial mayor to a roporter. '(In Manchester and Birmingham, for instanee, air raid measures will eost well over £500,000. How can we expect tbe ratepayers to sbonlder 50 per cent. of thatf" An official of the Association of Muui- - ipal.Corporations said: "We have ecnistently held tbat the wholo eost i ' iliese vital services should fall on CTOvernmont funds. And we shall maintain that attitude." Meanwhile several locftl authoril'ios will threaten to drop all rairl precaution schemc.s utiless tbe Oovemment sliares at least 70 per cent, of the cosl.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 14
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