AIR RAID SHELTERS
WELLINGTON SCHEME WORK TO BEGIN ON MONDAY. SURFACE AND TUNNEL PROTECTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. If labour and materials are available, work will begin on Monday on the construction of air-raid shelters (tunnel and surface) in Wellington to provide for 5000 persons, and other work expected to be started in the near future will bring the total up to 15,000. Three underground tunnel shelters are to be started on Monday, the location for these and certain surface shelters having been fixed. More projects on other sites should be under way in the following week. It is intended to work in shifts, right round the clock. Building shelter provision is well forward, and a start is to be made on protective measures in certain corporation buildings. These works are to be put in hand under an arrangement with the city council’s bankers for provision up to an ultimate amount of £lOO,OOO, but immediate expenditure has been arranged for to the extent of-£25,000. This amount represents only the corporation’s share of the cost, as the Government finds the remaining 75 per cent. More commitments will follow as the planned scheme develops.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1942, Page 2
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194AIR RAID SHELTERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1942, Page 2
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