AMBULANCE DEPOT
SPECIAL PROTECTION NOT
HELD NECESSARY
The view that there was no need to go to the expense of taking special measures to protect the Free Ambulance building against air attack was expressed by members at today's meeting of the Free Ambulance Board. It was pointed out by the superintendent (Mr. Fred Roffe) that protection would be justified only in the unlikely event of the first bomb actually hitting the building, because after the first bomb was dropped the ambulance units and the personnel would be on the scene and not in the depot.
The chairman (Sir Charles Norwood) said the destruction of the cars in the building would be most unlikely. Any alterations to the build : ing, which was one of the most substantial in Wellington, would be very costly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 9
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132AMBULANCE DEPOT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 9
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