USEFUL E.P.S. TRIAL
(P A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. The Christchurch Emergency Precautions Service held its most useful trial on Saturday evening, when personnel were called upon to deal with 100 unrehearsed incidents White sacks, with descriptions of emergencies, distributed by lorries represented incidents, gunshots being used to announce their occurrence. The alarm was sounded at 8.5 o'clock and. although the alert been announced in the afternoon, some people on the way to dances or theatres had not completed their journeys before the trams stopped running. The "all clear" was given at 9.20. The regional commissioner, Colonel Churchward, said the blackout was the best he had yet seen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 199, 24 August 1942, Page 4
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