"Snore Wardens" For Air Raid Shelters
It is expected that about a million people will be using the London air raid shelters during the winter. Some of them house as many as five or six thousand people-those are the underground railway stations and tubes. Just imagine that chorus of snoring at night. Do you wonder that they have installed "snore wardens" in these places, in order to control it as far as they can. Some of the tube station have bunks now, not bunks for all, but for a good number, especially for the women and children. And they are issuing season tickets for these shelters, giving preference to women and children, and next, to working men and women. Some bring their own mattresses, others have made sleeping bags. Quite a number just sit or lie or lean, and get what rest they can. The Berkeley Hotel, one of the most fashionable in London, has now put up bunks in three tiers around the walls of its own basement shelter; just like bunks on board ship, This shelter has only one partition, which shuts off the staff from the guests, but snorers on both sides of the partition are dealt with impar-
tially.
Nelle
Scanlan
"Shoes and Ships and
Sealing-wax," 2YA, November 29),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 78, 20 December 1940, Page 5
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