SERVICE, SAFETY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 20

SERVICE, SAFETY

If you want to post a letter, send a telegram, make a tel* phone call or open a bank account you can do it at the India, tries Fair, where there is almort a community within a community.

The Post and Telegraph Depart, ment has set up a Post Office af the fair, and there are telephon* boxes around the ground! f w ordinary Christchurch call,. The fair’s bank becomes a tem. porary branch of the Bank ot New Zealand for the duration of the fair; and it is a particularly well-equipped branch for it will have on display the latest type at automatic machines used for book-keeping. There will also b* a display of historic coins and banknotes, relics of the early days of New Zealand banking. Police Station

Lest banking lead to thought* of robbers, there can be a warn, ing that among the fair’s emergency services is its own Police Station. Throughout the fair there will be policemen on duty, and they have their own office. The policemen at previous industries fairs have become the good-natured temporary guardians of many children separated from their friends or their parents and custodians of gloves—never a pair—purses and umbrellas.

Their worst offender against law and order a few years ago almost wrecked the police caravan as well as creating havoc among the visitors to the fair; but the police will be spared similar trouble this year, for monkeys are not numbered among the sideshow attractions.

The emergency service enables a call from one of many points to go through the central office, where it is immediately relayed on to the responsible service. The fair is prepared for almost any eventuality, even the unlikely one of a general power failure, when it could immediately switch on its own dieseloperated generator.

Fair Aid Also on hand while the fair is open are St. John ambulance workers, and their first-aid room is ready all the time to deal with any minor accidents which occur from time to time when so many people as visit the fair are gather, ed. Firemen make constant inspections of the buildings to watch for any dangers—the display, have been carefully supervised to see that Are hazards are not created—and there is an emergency alarm service operating throughout the buildings.