CIVIL DEFENCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 9 February 1943, Page 4

CIVIL DEFENCE

FUTURE POLICY TO BE DISCUSSED Measures for implementing the policy of the War Cabinet in connection with the Dominion's civil defence system are to be discussed at a conference of E P.S. authorities to be held in Wellington on Friday. The con\erence has been convened by the Minister of Civil Defence, Mr Wilson. The mayors of the four main cities, who are district controllers of the E.P.S.. as well as those of the chief centres of the larger provincial areas, have been invited to the conference, which will also be attended by the three regional commissioners. Conferences of this mature h&ve also been held on various occasions in the past as a means of implementing E.P.S. policy as laid down by the War Cabinet from time to time.

A general outline of future E.P.S. activities was given recently by Mr Wilson in announcing that policy questions of vital importance had been determined by the War Cabinet and that these would have a direct bearing on training and time required to be devoted thereto by personnel. He said that the War Cabinet had determined that Emergency Precautions Services must be maintained in a condition of effectiveness in the meantime, ready to spring into action immediately should an emergency arise.