CIVIL DEFENCE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 95, 16 January 1943, Page 4

CIVIL DEFENCE

Special Training Course Arranged SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION Au announcement that the Civil Defence School of Instruction under the operational training branch of the National Service Department would be inaugurated on February 1 with a three weeks’ intensive course of instruction for 26 trainees, which the principal E.P. services throughout New Zealand have been invited to nominate, was made last evening bj' the Minister of Civil Defence, Mr. Wilson.

■ “The syllabus includes such general subjects as obligations and duty, firelighting, first aid, resuscitation, stretcherbearing, personal and general hygiene, chemical warfare, U.X.8., protection against high explosives, and crowd dispersal,” said the Minister. "Provision has also been made for specialized courses in organization of training warden duties and communication duties. The timetable has been designed to incorporate as many practical demonstrations as possible, including field work and the use of improvised materials. “Tile instruction of the trainees will be undertaken by a panel of qualified lecturers who are experts in their particular subjects, and it will be directed toward qualifying the trainees who return home to impart the knowledge gained at the school to associates, who in turn can train, or assist with the training of, personnel. Those passing out of. the school will be issued with local training offices certificates of competency. “The standard syllabus will be available as a guide to training locally and the scheme itself is framed with the object of placing training generally on a sound and uniform basis.”