600 CHILDREN QUIT SCHOOL IN 40 SECONDS
EXCELLENT DEMONSTRATION OF FIRE DRILL AT HAWERA, (Per Press Association.) HAWERA, Last Night. To-day members of the executive of the New Zealand Piro Brigades’ Association visited Hawera to witness a demonstration of £ro drill at the Hawera Main School. The organizing secretary, Captain Watts, considered it was the best he had seen at any school. Six hundred children marched out clear of the school in dO seconds. The conference at New Plymouth on Monday will consider a remit to make fire drill compulsory in all schools. They approve of a suggestion by the Hawera headmaster that all new schools should have an exit from all class rooms onto the playground.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 8
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117600 CHILDREN QUIT SCHOOL IN 40 SECONDS Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 8
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