AUSTRALIAN A.R.P.

Grey River Argus, 11 September 1940, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN A.R.P.

SCHOOL FOR CIVILIANS. Australian citizens are now beinggiven the opportunity to train themselves in emergency air raid precautions work. Special schools are being conducted by the Army Department (N.S.W.h Students arc specially instructed in the destruction of unexploded bombs and shells. The syllabus includes lectures on explosives, the types of shells and bombs I hat might be encountered, the nature of demolition charges, exploders and detonators, protective sandbag or earth walls around shells or bombs to be destroyed “in situ”; control of incendiary bombs; construction of simple type splinter proof shelters and trenches.