AIR RAID SHELTERS
USE FOR PILL BOXES BRITISH COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATIONS LONDON, Feb. 1. Apart from steel shelters for small homes and propped ceilings for basement houses the committee appointed by the Civilian Defence Minister, Sir John Anderson, recommends pillboxes as air raid shelters, the permanent strengthening of lower floors in large houses, tenements, blocks ot flats, shops, and offices, and finally communal shelters and trenches.
The report states that permament structures of the pill-box type buhl of brick and concrele have a peacetime use as a coal-shed or store and might be built in groups at the intersection of fences to accommodate two to four households. The committee urged legislation making the provision of shelters compulsory in all new buildings.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 27, 3 February 1939, Page 7
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