TUNNEL SHELTERS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 6

TUNNEL SHELTERS

Mount Cook Site Suggested Vn official whose duties require his presence in Tc Aro flat has suggested I hat if shelters tire to be Inuit t‘,> ho' l * o large niimber.s of people in tlie le ■ 111 aie.-i of lhe centre of the city the antborilies could not do better than burrow into Wellington's own Mount Cook. 11.. |,iu that is crowned liy tin- Na11.. 11; ,| Art G.-Illm-J and Dominion Mu .scum and the Technical College. Sin-li shelters, it " .i' argued, il due cm from tin- hill on noth th- e.-istern and western sides, would form an easy hideout for many hundreds of people iu Unit vicinity. Moreover, if they were dug into tho bill on a level witli Tasnmn Street on tlie one side and Taranaki Street on the other, It was considered they would even be protection from a direct hit because of tlieir dept 11. His staff having tunnelled right under the city recently in making the new sower, the city engineer has complete data of the earth formation along tlie route of that drain, information which might bo of considerable service should it 'bo found myessarj- to "dig for safety" a little later on