AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.
TESTS OF SHELTERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 13. In conjunction with air raid precautions, the 'Minister for Civilian De- , fence (Sir John Anderson) announced io-day that the approval of Parliar ment would be sought for an immediate start on a programme costing £1.000,000 for the provision of 50 holiday camps, designed to accommodate 350 persons in peace-time, and 3500 in wartime, when they would he used to supplement billeting under the present evacuation schemes. The results were also made public to-<lay of tests carried out at experimental ranges at Shoebnrynoss, which showed that steel air raid shelters, the free distribution of which to families in the lower-income grouns is expected to start at the end of the month, will, if sunk in the ground and covered with earth afford protection to occupants from ' high explosive bombs falling within 30 feet. _ Jn to-day s experiment a 5001 b. medium-case high explosive bomb was electric-ally detonated. Though the detonation tore a. huge prate in the earth and practically demolished a substantially-built structure representin rr a row of two-storey houses, the . shelters remained intact, though the brickwork from the blowr-np buddings crashed down upon them.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 15 February 1939, Page 9
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196AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 15 February 1939, Page 9
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