AIR RAID SHELTERS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4809, 12 July 1939, Page 6

AIR RAID SHELTERS

WHAT BRITAIN IS DOING. The Government's programme for distributing free air raid shelters to those with incomes in the neighbourhood of £250 a year will be substantially completed by the end of September, says the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post. At the moment about 500,000 shelters, for a maximum of 3,000,000 people, have been distributed. By the end of September 1,400,000 shelters, protecting up to 10,000,000 persons,

will have gone out. This represents the maximum capacity at present of the steel industry.

Originally a total of something like 2,000,000 shelters was envisaged, but this has been reduced by the number of houses found to be unsuitable for the Anderson shelter and for which brick and concrete huts and communal sheltes are being prepared.

When this part of the Government's programme is completed, anyone above the £250 income limit will be able to buy a garden shelter. The total cost will be about £B. Further

statements on this question will be made in the House of Commons by Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal.

"Hello, is that flat number 57? Well, this is Mr. Tavistock of the flat beneath yours. Listen. You've been throwing a party for over five hours now, and I don't mind that. I don't mind the shouting and the stamping. I don't mind the gramophone and the wireless and the piano and the singing. But for heaven's sake, I don't want to get drunk—so put some more lime in that gin that's been leaking through the ceiling!"