PLAIN FOR CITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 12

PLAIN FOR CITY

TO MEET EMERGENCY

THE CIVIL GUARD

UNITS ESTABLISHED

Though there.has been a speeding up in enrolments in the City iii the Home Guard and the Civil Guard —the Emergency Precautions Scheme—during the past few days, many more men are needed. The wide scope of the plans to meet emergency by the Civil Guard section can be gathered from the ouline of the eleven units of the Emergency Precautions Scheme. Each unit has already prepared, in large part its detailed plans of organisation and working.

The units are: Central Executive—Chairman, , the Mayor of Wellington; staff of specialist officers.

Finance and Accounts.—Controller, the City Treasurer, Mr. B. O. Peterson; the major part, of the staff will be enrolled en bloc from City Corporation departments, others to be chosen from Civil Guard enrolments.

Supplies.—Controller, Mr. M. J. Casey, purchase and supplies officer of the City Engineer's Department; staff as above. This unit will be responsible for the purchase, commandeer, storing, and distribution of all food, material, equipment, etc. Works.—Controller, the City Engineer, Mr. K. E. Luke; staff of 400 Corporation technical men, tradesmen, and other workers, to be enrolled en bloc; 50 wardens, 500 patrolmen, 100 tradesmen. The works unit will provide and control electricity, gas, water, and sanitation and will control fire-fighting, 1 demolition, rescue and construction parties. THE MEDICAL SIDE. Medical- Services.—Controller, the Medical Superintendent of Wellington Hospital; staff, 100 stretcher ■ bearers, medical orderlies,- cleaning staffs and labourers for hospital work; 115 women car drivers, 300 nursing aids, 150 orderlies, and bearers,' trained by St. John Ambulance and Red Cross. i

Transport.—Controller, Mr. M. Cable, General Manager of Tramways. Seventy Corporation trucks and drivers will be taken over en bloc. About 400 drivers and 300 cars, vans, and trucks are proposed for patrols and fire-fighting auxiliaries, and 185 vehicles and 230 drivers for medical service transport.

Communications: Controller, Mr. E. H. R. Green, superintending engineer, Post and Telegraph Department; staff, all Government officials employed by the Post Office, Broadcasting Service, and Railway Departments, .motorcyclists, retired telegraphists, and telephone experts, arid radio amateurs.' KEEPING PUBLIC INFORMED. • Information: Controller, Mr. L. Strachan; staff,-to .include copywriter and radio broadcasters," slide makers, i picture theatre operators, poster artists, printers, reporters, and inquiry officers, school teachers,,and typists. ■ , Accommodation- and evacuation: Controller, Brigadier - A., Greene; staff, controllers, adjutants, and other camp and evacuation <• officers, ;$6 cooks, and 100 camp orderlies. This unit will/provide temporary accommodation, food, and social welfare services.

Police: Controller, Superintendent C. W. Lopdell;/staff of 800 men, for auxiliary police, guards, patrols, and traffic direction. ' •'

Harbour: ' Controller, the Harbourmaster, Captain P. S. Peterson; Harbour .Board staff and employees to be enrolled envbloc.