AGAINST AIR RAIDS
SAFEGUARDS IN BRITAIN. HEAVY EXPENDITURE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. The House of Commons approved an estimate of £42,205,907 for air precautionary services in the current financial year. Sir J. Anderson said ne hoped that 21 million steel shelters would be delivered by the end of the year. The estimates. included considerable sums for the purchase of material for strengtl/ning basements, 15 million respirators, one and a-third million protective devices for babies, I,’ million respirators for small children and 350 million sandbags. The Government is spending £3,700.000 on firefighting appliances and equipment..
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1939, Page 8
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