WAR-TIME CAMP-SCHOOLS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 64, 1 August 1938, Page 1

WAR-TIME CAMP-SCHOOLS

TRAINING- OF CHILDDFX PROVISION FOR 3.000,000 LONDON, June 3.—A £12,0U0,€00 scheme for camp schools, toi be built and used at once “for practice,” and to which 3,000,000 children living in areas liable to bombing could be evacuated in event of war, is .to be placed before the Homie Office committee to study evacuation problems, which meets shortly for the first time. The scheme is being prepared by 3lr L. U. Golden and Mr R. M. K. Buchanan, experts on refugee problems, who have been working in close touch with the Home Office for 2.V years. The scheme also provides for emergency mobile kitchens, each capable of serving 21,000 meals a day, to travel with refugees during an evacuation. For 3,000,000 • “This may be called the principal existing scheme for evacuation, on a. national scale, of the non-essential population.” said Hr Buchanan. “The basic idea is to establish, ns soon as possible, a large number ct‘ camp-schqols, to which in the event of war breaking out, the 3,000,000 children living in ‘target areas’ could lie immediately evacuated.