AIR RAID DRILL PRACTISED
Special Instruction At Dunedin (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, February 5. The first air raid precautions camp to be held in New Zealand took place at Otago Heads over the week-end when about 80 men took part in intensive training about their duties should Dunedin be subjected to an enemy air attack* The units represented included St. John Ambulance Brigade, Legion of Frontiersmen, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Territorials, Boy Scouts and civilian trainees who have been undergoing special instruction in air. raid precautions -work for the past few months. Various exercises, air raid drill, the treatment of injured, persons and a series of lectures were included on the programme for the first two days and the camp concluded with a mock air raid on a specially-erected village. This afternoon a big crowd watched “enemy” aircraft bomb the township; it saw havoc wrought by gas and was given an excellent conception of the methods of treating injured persons. The whole proceedings were most realistic and excellently carried out
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Southland Times, Issue 23735, 6 February 1939, Page 7
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