EMERGENCY PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1941, Page 6

EMERGENCY PLANS

PREPARATIONS IN MASTERTON DISTRICT

VARIOUS PHASES DISCUSSED

MEETING OF COMMITTEE

Various mailers regarding loetd emergency plans were discussed at n meeting of the .Hastert on Emergency I’reeantions Scheme, held in the Council Chambers last night. Mr. T. .lordan presided.

The controller of the medical and ! public health committee. Mr Norman Lee. advised that first-aid cabinets had been installed at the Maslcrton Club and Lansdowne School. The Hospital Board had obtained a hundred folding beds for emergency purposes. Stretchers were not being provided. as the Government held that it was not the duty of the board to provide them. The men's division of the St. John Ambulance had ofl'ered to give every assistance if required. but men for stretcher bearer duties were required. He suggested that men not already detailed for special duties could be formed into squads for that purpose. It was decided to ask the authorities to reconsider the ruling regarding the provision ot first aid equipment in dressing stations other than at public hospitals and to communicate with the St. John Ambulance Brigade and ascertain the position in regard to stretcher bearers. Correspondence was read regarding the control of communications and the protection of vital points in the event of att emergency. The Wairarnpa R.S.A. advised that Mrs C. E. Rogers had been appointed deputy to Mis G. R. Beocrof’. as director of soup kitchens. SURVEY OF ACCOMMODATION. The Town Clerk. Wellington City Council, wrote regarding a meeting held in Wellington this week as to arrangements for the evacuation of residents of Wellington in the event of an emergency. It was decided to ask all local bodies to make a survey of the accommodation available by the end of February. The minutes of the meeting read by Mr O'Hara Smith contained no reference to the cost of the survey.

Mr Jordan, who was present at the meeting, said he had raised the question of the cost involved in making the survey and the meeting had decided that the cost would be borne by the whole of the local bodies concerned, including Wellington city.

It was decided to point out the omission of this decision from the minutes.

Arising out of a report presented by the Superintendent of the Masterton Fire Brigade. Mr T. B. Clark, on the motion of Mr J. C. D. Mackley. it was decided to write to Mr Girling Butcher. Inspector of Fire Brigades, pointing out that it was desirable that lire boards should be protected under the emergency regulations if brigades attended tires beyond the board’s area.

Il was agreed that if the borough water pump was not required for water supply purposes for the borough it would be made available, if required, to the brigade for tire-lighting.

The Borough Engineer. Mr C. R Mtibson. was requested to confer with Mr Clark and bring down a report aS to the cost of .carrying out retain recommendations made by Mr Clark regarding emergency lire lighting fittings.

HOME GUARD d. E.P.S. Mr O’Hara Smith, reported on a meeting at which the following recommendations were made with it view to i the closer association of the Home ’ Guard and E PS. as drill units: That i the n.c.o. class for Home Guard and' E.P.S. be combined for drill instruc-;

lion; that the Home Guard and E.P.S 1 drill units be known ns A and B conn panics; that all members of the E.P.S organisation be directed to link ut with the E.P.S. military unit unless they are. for any cause, unable to do so, in which case they can apply for exemption; that at the earliest opportunity each committee controller of the E.P.S. cal! his committee together lo a parade, where their particular duties would be explained: that a combined class be arranged both for Home Guard and EPS. for instruction in first aid. stretcher bearer and gas decontamination etc., that application be made for uniforms to be provided for the EPS m enable them to parade in company with the Home Guard when the hitter had their's; that to enable the fullest co-operation to be maintained in respect <‘f essential requirements of men, transports, etc., between one unit and the other that all requisitions be sent through the secretary of the Home Gtn.rd and EPS committee whose duty will be to facilitate arrangeinents The reciimrmmdattors were appn.vrd.

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