MOCK RAID AT TIMARU
PUBLIC AFFECTED FOR TIME The first trial of the Timaru Emergency Precautions Services, in which the general public had a part to play, was held yesterday afternoon at 2.45 o’clock. Word that raiders were - approaching was presumed to have been received and the alarm was sounded. Businesses and factories closed and employees and customers sought shelter. Those in private homes were expected to go to their trenches. Schools were evacuated, primary school children being sent home, while some secondary schools assembled their pupils in trenches or other places of safety. A realistic touch was given by a bomber, which, by arrangement with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, flew low over the central part of the town on several "dive-bombing attacks." Streets were deserted apart from ( E.P.S. workers, such as runners and: traffic police, within a short time of j the sounding of the alarm. j The chairman of the E.P.S. (Mr P. B. Foote) expressed satisfaction with the response of the public and business persons to the demands of the trial.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 7
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