FIRE WATCHING
PERIODS OF DUTY
MEALS AND ACCOMMODATION
The following is the continuation of the explanatory statement made by the Permanent Organiser of the Wellington City Fire Watching Service for the assistance of building organisers and fire-watching personnel:— Accommodation for watching personnel is to be arranged for by ihe building organiser in collaboration with the occupiers. If it is possible to divide building personnel in such a manner as to require of each watcher one spell of duty in every nine periods, it is, better to provide for watchers to complete one whole week (with suitable relief for, say, two hours early each evening), to be followed with, say, a further eight weeks' freedom from duty, rather than to operate upon a one period-a-week-basis. PROVISION OP BLANKETS. Watchers doing a complete week of duty would be able to bring in their own blankets for the period, whereas if blankets were brought in for one night only the transport difficulty would become acute. The provision
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 8
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164FIRE WATCHING Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 8
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