AIR RAID DEFENCE
CONFERENCE IN AUCKLAND. NO GAS MASKS FOR CIVIL POPULATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 2G. The Minister of Defence and Post-master-General, Mr Jones, conferred today with a sub-committee of the Air Raid Precautions Organisation in Auckland. The proceedings were private. The Mayor of Auckland. Sir Ernest Davis, presided. The Minister later visited the naval base at Devonport and the military camp at Narrow Neck. He left for Wellington by the Limited express tonight. Referring to air-raid precautions in an interview, Mr Jones said there was no intention on the part of the Government to provide the civil population with gas masks. “Our experts say it is not necessary,” he added. In the main centres of New Zealand a key personnel had been established for anti-gas training, thus imparting certain knowledge to selected groups so that they could give instruction to others if necessary. Local bodies had been consulted and instructions had been given to members of the Police Force, fire brigades, traffic officer! , and the like.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1939, Page 7
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