FIRE FIGHTING
REORGANISATION MEASURES IN BRITAIN HOME SECRETARY’S SURVEY POSSIBILITY OF INCENDIARY BOMBING (British Official Wireless). (Recd This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, May 10. Moving the second reading in the House of Commons of the first measures dealing with fire precautions which have been before Parliament for more than forty years, and the first legislation to place on local authorities legal obligations to arrange for efficient fire services, the Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) said the system of fire precautions in Britain had grown in a very haphazard way. Jle added that the need for fire prevention was especially urgent in view of the danger of incendiary outbreaks due to air bombing. Arrangements would be made under the Bill for different brigades to come to each other's aid in times of emergency.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1938, Page 8
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132FIRE FIGHTING Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1938, Page 8
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