PLANS DRAWN UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 8

PLANS DRAWN UP.

EARTHQUAKE EMERGENCY

MKF.TIX'J IN \VKI,LIS<;Ti>\. (By Totfirrnpli ITihih Afwrwiiilli.ti.) w,;i,UM.niN. riiuisiiav. A iniM-t of the I'Xuilllive coiiiinittee of Iho oi'yiinisntion set up to drnw pluns lo meet, the por.-il.ilii v of mi eniM lu|iiiiUt> vriiiTjiiMii'V ill the city ot Wellington whs held in-day in the Hiisin l!,w, ive piivilioil. wliiell will l»e the liend (|iiiiit.i s i>l' the ion should the need iiriw. The committee'* objective whs 1., rciin.dll and revise the |i lit II for den line; with nil enierpenev pie piinitory to the culling together of cominltlecM mill siibeoinmitteew, -nime of which havn not been activi< for <*omc time, ot hern Iwive continued the work of detailed itioll.

Tlio Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hi-lop, presided, and there was practically a full representation ..[' .ill bodies and authoiiI ie*, wliohh nllieern mid nominees will form tlie executive, including the Police, Defence, I'imt OthYe, I'ublic Work* nnd Heiiltli Departments, the Public Service CiiniiiiMxioiHT, medical nervicen, Hoapitiil Hi hi r<l. Ki'il (ross ii nd St. .folm Ainliilianeo ftoeiftien, shipping interests, Aiitoinoliile AxHiM-iation, tnin«|>ort nnd nutliorities, (liiuiilkt of Coinineicp nnd tlio Prrsi*.

Tin , meeting unproved of Hit , in«uc of iuwtruetioim to citizen* outlining step* In be adopted in case of emergency. Tliomi included turning off jra« and electricity nt. meter*, tires, iiin-n'i\ nl.ioii of nvnilulde water supplies iilid food, aiul attention to health matI it*. The Mayor outlined the *teps beiiij» tnkrii to establish drciwinjt otat imin in I Iμ- city mill suburb* a n<l to ileal with camuilf ie« should the nerd urine.