BRITAIN SPEEDS UP CIVIL DEFENCE: PLANS
(Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. Over ten times more will be spent next year than this on civil defence and in’buying equipment and materials. ' '; ' . This is disclosed in detailed estimates published today of a speed-up in the civil defence reorganisation. Equipment and materials, on which only £20,000 was spent in the current year, will cost £254,000 sterling in the next 12 months. ’ The amount to be spent on training will be £472,000 again.it £60,000 in the present year. • Altogether £3,847,960 is to be spent on civil defence next year. The estimates show' a net increase over the present year of £ 1,326,800 but this is 1 mainly because the expenses* caused by the aftermath'of war are now almost paid off. The cost, for instance, of dismantling and reinstating land and buildings used in wartime for civil - defence will be down by £259,000..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1949, Page 7
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