FIRE PRECAUTIONS
REORGANISATION OF BRITISH SYSTEM BILL BEFORE PARLIAMENT. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, May 10. (Received May 11, at 1 p.m.) In moving the second reading in the House of Commons of the first measures dealing with fire precautions, which have been before Parliament for more than 40 years, and the first legislation to place on local authorities legal obligations to arrange for. efficient fire services, the Home Secretary said the system of fire precautions in Britain had > grown in a very haphazard way. Sir Samuel Hoare said the need for fire prevention was especially urgent in view of the danger of incendiary outbreaks due to air bombing. Arrangements would be made under the BUI for different brigades to come to each other’s aid in times of emergency.
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Evening Star, Issue 22954, 11 May 1938, Page 9
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