AIR RAID TEST AT AUCKLAND
[ ♦ MINISTER ATTENDS E.P.S. TRIAL (P.A.) AUCKLAND, November 27. Under a low ceiling of cloud and , heavy intermittent rain, Auckland city and environs experienced a full-scale air raid test between 6.5 and 7.17 this morning. • Personnel of the E.P.S. manned their posts, most, of which were at full strength within a quarter of an hour. Because the alert was sounded early, when few workers were in the city, it. did not provide a real test for the new’deep shelter system, but some cellar shelters were used by a few. The hospital arrangements to deal with casualties were fully efficient, and the evacuation of patients who could be moved was carried out in remarkably quick time to clear the wards for raid victims.- At the main-hospital 347 beds were made available. The test was carried out in the presence of the Minister of Civil Defence (the Hon, D. Wilson), the Director of National Service (Mr J.-S. Hunter), and the Regional Commissioner (Colonel F. L. G. West). An actual fire occurred on Kings Wharf, where some piles were ablaze. The outbreak was suppressed by the harbour E.P.S. unit.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23807, 28 November 1942, Page 6
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