Building To Resist Min Explosion
CANBERRA (By Airmail). —Buildings to resist atom bpmb attacks are included in a £6,C00,'000 Post Office construction and modernisation pro-
gramme 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,C00, £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 £0,000,000 will be spent on extending postal and telephone services throughout country areas.—Reuters.
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Northern Advocate, 22 December 1948, Page 5
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