WELLINGTON PLANS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 14

WELLINGTON PLANS

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

ORGANISATION AHEAD

Speaking at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) said that a matter in connection with disasters like that in Hawkes Bay was the organisation that should be provided for beforehand, especially in towns that were liable to meet with such disasters. In Wellington they had been at work for some time, and they had useful plans prepared and the organisation laid out as to what should be done. They had arranged how the various services could be protected— how the various units of the City Council's employ could be made use of, and how to meet the emergency in tho different depots. Instructions had gone out to all their men that they must report at a given depot, iv their own districts, and bo ready to get into contact with those who were controlling affairs. Then supplies had to be arranged for beforehand, so that emergency services could bo provided at the shortest notice, and they would have to get into contact with all the other bodies who assist in emergencies,

such as the Red Cross, the St. John Ambulance, the Salvation Army, the Automobile Association, and other bodies, all of whom were working just now in Hawkes Bay. They must have them all organised so that everyone would know where to report. It was also wise to get into touch with tliose not directly under the city control, such as the Gas Company and other companies in control of essential services of the city. Those were all matters that were now being considered by the city officers, and. would duly be reported on, with a complete organisation for the future. He just mentioned the matter, as he know that the architects, in common with other bodies, would be taking action to make provision for such calamities as might happen, and one could almost say were likely to happen, in an earthquake district sueli as New Zealand.