Anti-Atom Bomb Building In Melbourne
CANBERRA (By Air Mail). Buildings to resist atom bomb attacks are included in a £6,000,000 Post Office construction and modernisation programme for the State of Victoria, announced recently by the Australian Postmaster-General, Senator D. Cameron. In the city of Melbourne, with its population of over 1.000,000. £2.730,000 will be spent., mainly on two additional modern telephone exchanges. Under one of these will be constructed a basement designed to resist atom bomb attack. An emergency telephone system will be maintained for the city in the event of any attack affecting other services.
The remainder of the £6,000.000 will be spent on extending postal and telephone services throughout country areas.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 8
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