ANTI-GAS TRAINING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4

ANTI-GAS TRAINING

A WELLINGTON SCHOOL

Centring about a gas training school set up at the Corporation. Yard, Clyde Quay, instruction in methods of combating gas warfare is being given E.P.S. personnel in the Wellington district. With a lecture room, gas testing chamber, gas locks, store and equipment room, the centre is equipped for training in all branches of gas warfare; lectures and demonstrations are held, on. week nights and during the weekends.

Thd gas decontamination unit is under the direction of the unit controller, Mr. R. G. Meldrum, A.R.1.8.A., A.N.Z.1.A., F.F.Sc, A.M.1.5.E., and the deputy controllers, Messrs. M. P. McIver and I. G. Guthrie. The senior gas identification officer is' Mr. L. H. Davis, M.Sc, and the senior gas liaison officer Dr. E. B. Davies.

Liaison officers have taken their course of training at the centre and lectures and demonstrations are in -progress to enable the issuing of respirators to E.P.S. personnel, which will be undertaken by liaison officers attached to each area or unit after they have passed a qualifying examination. The gas liaison officers, of whom 120 .have been appointed from the various E.P.S. areas, are to pass on the information they have gained from the lectures to all E.P.S. personnel within their areas, and when this general training has been completed specialist courses will be given to all units and to the staffs of industrial undertakings relating particularly to their own spheres of work. Specialist sections include the treatment of'gas casualties, decontamination of roadways, buildings, "and."structures, clothing, foodstuffs; warehouse:stock?, transport, and ,of industrial undertakings. ' rind thedetecting section for gas identification.