FOR THE E.P.S.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1942, Page 8

FOR THE E.P.S.

AN APPEAL TO WOMEN

CAMPAIGN FOR EQUIPMENT

Several hundred women representing various organisations in Wellington met yesterday at the Wellington Central Fire Brigade station, by the invitation of the Mayoress, to watch an incendiary bomb display. After lectures by Mr. C. A. Woolley, the brigade superintendent, and the assistant superintendent, Mrs. Hislop showed how effectively a bomb can be extinguished by the use of water. Later four women, using bucket pumps, put out a "display" fire caused by one of the bombs. Beforehand Mrs. Hislop had made an appeal for equipment which is urgentr ly needed for distribution among the various E.P.S. aid posts throughout the city. She asked the meeting to write down a list of what was needed, and to co-operate with her in assembling a substantial collection as soon as possible. Here is the list:—Enamel basins, small pie dishes, kettles, primuses or camp cookers, lamps, torches and batteries, triangular bandages, old clean linen for cutting into bandages, Winchester quart bottles, hot water bottles and covers, thermometers, small brush and comb bags to hold patients' valuables, rugs, blankets, stretchers, all kinds of cutlery, bed pans, urinals, and timber (from quarter to half an inch through) for splints. Contributions will be gratefully received at the Mayoress's depot in the old public library building. The need is urgent. There is no knowing when the giver might herself be the victim, and it behoves all to give of their fullest co-operation.