EVACUATING CIVILIANS
PREPARATIONS IN VICTORIA Melbourne, Julv 31 Nearly 100 municipalities in northern ’j Victoria have been asked by the State M Emergency Council to prepare plans for - billeting civilians in the event of enemy : attack. Municipalities will be given • the necessary powers under the Na- | tional Security Act to do this work, i They will be given the power of com- j pulsorv billeting, and power to acquire »; properties for use as hostels, auxiliary ■ hospitals, and other purposes. I councils have also been told (hat. for (planning purposes, the possibility of an i ,! increase in the population of the muni- • cipality by 66 per cent, should be en-; i visaged. Evacuees will comprise: Children; ; i under six. 25 per cent (these will be ; ! j accompanied by their mothers or; (female guardians); children over six : ! and under 15. 50 per cent.; and adults. - { 25 per cent. ! 1 in a circular letter* to the municip-; ; j alities, the council says that if evacu-J !; cipal council'will be responsible 1 Tor j the billeting and welfare of evacuee? | who may be sent to it by the State! Government.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 7 August 1941, Page 5
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