DISTRICT SURVEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1941, Page 7

DISTRICT SURVEY

EAIERGENCY ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE INQUIRY FORMS SENT OUT. EXPLANATION OF POSITION. A survey is being made of the accomodation available in Masterion and district in the event of evacuation of Wellington residents being considered necessary. Forms arc- being posted in Masterton today to every householder by Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith, hon. secretary of the .Masterton District Emergency Precautions Organisation. In an. explanation of the purpose of the stir-: vey. Mr O'Hara Smith states: ' ' Included in our Emergency Precautions organisation is an accommodation j and evacuation committee organisedj through the RS A. We require to as-, certain, purely as a ; recautionary mea-i sure, how much sleeping accuinmoda-l tion could be made available in pri-1 vote homes within '.lie borough to ae-j commodate families from outside should this become iixce ■ mry. Rations i for evacuees would be arranged for! through this organisation as necessity 1 arose, but all we require at present is! a record of sleeping accommodation 1 available. With this object we shall be! grateful of jour assistance and co-] operation in filling in the enclosed; form <>f confidential questionnaire, mid; handing same :■■ a repre entmive ' the committee when he calls in about ; a week's time. We wish to allay any apprehension which otherwise might; arise. in assuring you tli.it this is all’ part of our gem-ral plan ■ f emergency, precautions to organise against an em-1 urgency which mi;;ht ■ might n<>'| arise in the future '' The information .-ought. winch . :■>■ Hi' treated as confidential includes par-i liculars relating to the present am.-; airph,is sleeping aecomm>'da’i-.vad-■ii'e ami the number <>f wh--f ■.mid be billeted f-.r .h.,i’ . : I.::.?!', ■icriods.