AUSTRALIAN A.R.P.
SCHOOL FOR CIVILIANS. Australian citizens are now being given the opportunity to train themselves in emergency air raid precautions work. Special schools are being conducted by the Army Department at Liverpool (N.S.W.). Students are specially instructed in the destruction of unexploded bombs and shells. The syllabus includes lectures on explosives, the types of shells and bombs that might be encountered, the nature and preparation of demolition charges, exploders and detonators, protective sandbags or earth walls around shells or bombs to be destroyed "in situ”: control of incendiary bombs: construe-; tion of simple type splinter proof shelters and trenches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 2
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100AUSTRALIAN A.R.P. Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 2
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