SAFE DEPARTURE
FROM THEATRES & SCHOOLS IN EVENT OF FIRE. EXIT DRILLS INSTITUTED IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press .Association.) WELLINGTON, This. Day. The Wellington City Council proposes to call op the management of all picture theatres to institute a plan of educating patrons in the avoidance of panic. Managers are being asked to show each night on the screen a plan of the theatre, with all the exists clearly marked, and once a week to require patrons to use the side and emergency doors. Councillor Martin Luckie, chairman of the By-laws Committee, stressed the value of regqlar and orderly exit drill at schools, with a view to the avoidance of tragedy. Not enough of that drill was done. If theatre drills were carried out faithfully for three months, and regular school drills were held as part of the normal course ,such tragic happenings as those recently at Boston and St. John’s (Newfoundland) need never occur here, Councillor Luckie said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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157SAFE DEPARTURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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