ANTI-GAS WORK.
CLASSES IN THE FOUR CENTRES THE GOVERNMENT’S PLANS. (Per PreßS Association.) WELLINGTON. November 24. Classes to receive instruction in anti-gas training are to be set up in Auckland, AA’ellington,- Christchurch, and Dunedin, as a precaution against gas attacks from the air, according to a circular received by the Eastbourne Borough Council at its meeting tonight from the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. AY. ,E. Parry).
The liability of the (Dominion to attacks from the air had been under consideration for some tinje by a special committee set up by the Government, said the circular. Arising out of the deliberations of the committee, a tentative scheme for the- dissemination of information about precautionary and remedial measures against gas attacks by air had been drawn up. Thie classes to be created would he conducted under the auspices of the army department of gas casualties and the work of decontamination. It was desired that the personnel of. such classes should >b<? drawn from the.employees of local authorities, and -organisations engaged in first aid work, together with .officers of State departments, such as the police and army. It was considered desirable that training should begin in the four main centres. It was proposed to limit 1 the classes to 20. They would be composed of six police offices s, -fix municipal officers (for decontamination and repair work) four first aid ' men, and four fire brigadesnien. The Minister asked for the co-opera-tion of the council as - local bodies would be a vital unit in organisation in ease of emergency. ■
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 39, 25 November 1938, Page 4
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