"NO ENTHUSIASM"
FEELING IN AUCKLAND
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. No official information has been received by the E.P.S. authorities at Auckland concerning the suggested compulsory two hours' weekly training for personnel. It is stated that any such suggestion would come from the National Service Department through the Regional Commissioner, Colonel West, who is now in Welling- j ton. ! No enthusiasm has been expressed in the city for such a move and the Chief Warden, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, stated that he did not think other than a skeleton E.P.S. could be kept going today. "We are in the position of the normal fire brigade," said Mr. Allum, "waiting for something to happen, which is only bearable when we are told there is danger but intolerable when informed that the danger has lessened. If an alarm came the whole organisation would spring into action. The people have done their part during the past year; why bother them unnecessarily. We do not want to do any work for show, but will never regret what has been done." Mr. Allum said that a course for voluntee.r instructors was starting at Wellington at the end of the month. There was little enthusiasm, because the Department was arranging to engage men at salaries of £500 for instructional work ih the four centres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1943, Page 3
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