ATOMIC AND GAS WARFARE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27369, 7 June 1954, Page 8

ATOMIC AND GAS WARFARE

CIVIL PREPAREDNESS! URGED PROPOSED STUDIES BY RED CROSS UNITS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June®! New Zealand should be prepared an atomic or chemical war, ana, net cause of this, the New Cross Society should make a sti®| of the effects and curing of and chemical sickness a subject in its curriculum. Tms vra decided at the annual meeting in wa lington on Saturday of th? DominM Council of the men's detachments ! the society. „ ... , The council will ask the British BJ Cross and the British Home .Office fl information on radiation ana cnemia sickness. Morgan , chairman of tj council, said that in the event of S atomic or chemical war, it wouia j more important to know what not ? do, rather than what to do. . “We do not, however, want to » known as an alarmist society in uj matter,” saidw Mr Morgan. Fecp must have confidence in us. ' The council was discussing a from the New Plymouth commanMJ (Mr G. F. Gapper) suggesting RW because of international tension, traw ing for treatment of casualties I chemical, gas, and atomic wan should be included in the curricu of the society. . Mr Gapper said the subjects very complicated for the layman, an emergency, the Red Cross. wu be looked to for help, and it w°u lacking in its duty if pared for any eventuality. New . mouth members, he said, had Dee ceiving instruction from an expei'some time. . h ; e j Mr D. H. Peat, commandant-m-™'. said people took the stupid at that, in the event of another wa • . hydrogen bomb would be en 2^f lqn c wipe out civilisation in New Zea . “If a hydrogen bomb is droPP , there must be an explosion ’ he said. “There will be s people on that perimeter, wno know what to do.”

Cscar, a young man of so attached to the staff of a Hebrides leprosarium that J® “ l rt2 re want to leave after he had been of the disease. When the ton® te for his discharge, he said ne . Q to stay at the hospital as a wor “You have helped me for many y. and now I want to help qj I return to my island,” he ; offer was accepted because tM °F tai workers realised that by on as a worker his rehabilitouo n .Ji 0V be more gradual. Also, ws hi] villagers would be more kina .. when he returned, having moving freely about the nosui