PRECAUTIONS SCHEME

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21222, 19 September 1940, Page 6

PRECAUTIONS SCHEME

EXAMPLE SET BY WAIKATO INTEREST FROM SOUTH The lead given by five of the major Waikato local bodies in adopting a combined emergency precaution scheme appears to have already influenced local bodies in other part? of New Zealand. Yesterday Hamilton was favoured with a visit from the engineer of a county near Palmerston North, where the local bodies had also ceme • to realise that 300 separately organ- ! ised emergency precaution schemes must fail to give sufficient co-opera-tion if an invasion were attempted, although these schemes were eminently satisfactory for the purpose for which tney were designed, namely, earthquakes. The engineer made a very thorough examination of the working of the WaiKato scheme and took back complete information for his own and adjacent counties, because there were no doubts in his mind that all those counties would ~dopt the same plan of organisation, particularly when they saw that all the work they had already done on their own schemes really laid the foundations for this bigger and more comprehensive scheme. This news will be of great interest and encouragement to the people of Waikato who have so freely joined up with the New Zealand Emergency Precaution Volunteers, and thereby proved that the new plan of organisation developed by what was originally known as the Waikato Mobile Defence was the best for local bodies to adopt against possible invasion.