Getting The Better Of Wailing Winnie
S to air raids, we have roof spotters night and day, of course, so when the local Wailing Winnie starts to wail, we don’t bother at all, but just go on working. Indoor. shelters have been erected all over the factory-huge things they are, too, of brick and concrete, with concrete soofs-and when we hear the three pips on the buzzer, which is the roof spotter’s signal for "Immediate Danger," and usually means enemy ’planes right overhead, we drop everything and bolt for the shelters, We are all allocated to places in the shelters, and there we sit until we get the continuous buzz, which means " Immediate Danger Passed,’ and back we go to work again. With good roof spotters we waste very little time, and it’s far better than in the first days of air raids, when we all had to troop out to the outdoor shelters on the first note of the siren, and patiently wait until the all clear went--what must have been lost in production in those days I can only imagine, Nowadays, unless there’s a concentrated attack on our immediate neighbourhood, we usually lose only a few minutes at a time, even though we may have to make several dives for the shelters in one shift.- (" Proud Service; The Factory Girl in Britain," by Monica, 2YA, December 3.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 5
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229Getting The Better Of Wailing Winnie New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 5
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