DANGER ZONES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 197, 20 August 1940, Page 8

DANGER ZONES.

EMERGENCY SCHEME.

MEDICAL SERVICE PLAN".

Under the direction of the Emergency Precautions Scheme organisation, a medical service plan, with Dr. D. N. W. Murray as controller, has been prepared, and a register of women for service and emergency duties has been made.

It was stated by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, that official advice had been received that in the event of the coastal batteries going into action, the borough of Devonport and the south ■shore from Mission Bay to St. Helier's Bay, would constitute danger zones. It had been decided to complete, purely as a precautionary measure which might never have to be implemented, a register of citizens who would billet people temporarily transferred from the line-of-fire areas. The work of compiling the register was being entrusted to the district and city block wardens and their assistants outside the danger zones. Sir Ernest, in announcing the appointment of Dr. Murray as controller of medical services, said that the latter would be in supreme charge of all such services in the metropolitan area, and responsible for all arrangements for the allocation of personnel, which, for the staffing of aid posts, would be drawn from the St. John, Ambulance Association and the Red Cross Society'. ...