WIDE MEASURES

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 7

WIDE MEASURES

British Official Wireless.

ASSISTANCE FOR PUBLIC

Rec. 6.30 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 21. Wide measures are being adopted by the Ministry of Home Security and local authorities to lessen the inconvenience caused by random bombing. From Monday post offices will remain open after the public sirens have sounded until a second warning indicating imminent danger is received. It is generally expected that compensation for essential clothing and furniture lost by raid victims will now be paid in full, the previous limits of £30 for clothing and £50 for furniture being removed. The chief measure, however, is understood to concem the adaptation of daytime shelters for night use by the pro-' vision of shelter marshals, sanitary arrangements and possible sleeping facilities. Many basements not already requisitioned will be equipped for "round the clock" use, as well as those already adapted for daytime only. Plans for transporting people from the more vulnerable areas where shelter provisions are insufficient are understood to include division of night evacuation areas into groups of streets, each group having allotted shelters in another area. From each group private coaches and buses will leave at a fixed time in the evening and retum people to their homes in the morning. Experiments, however, will first have. to be .made. Good-humoured philosophy, states the Daily Mail, is the rule everywhere in tube stations, where many people now take food and bedding in the evenings. "Don't forget to put your shoes outside the door," a porter told a woman who was making elaborate preparations for the night. Use of tube stations as shelters is expected to be restricted to those who are without alternative accommodation.