MUSTER OF FIRE UNITS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 59, 11 March 1942, Page 3

MUSTER OF FIRE UNITS

EF FICIENCY TEST ARRANGED As a test of their efficiency when responding to an alarm, all E.P.S. fire units in Wanganui will parade on Saturday afternoon at. their respective posts, assembling later in Cook’s Gardens for a demonstration of the best methods of dealing with incendiary bombs. Units which will parade include the E.P.S. Motor-car Patrol Section, Emergency Fire Service, Fire Brigade Auxiliary Unit, and also the Boys’ Brigade, members of which will act as messengers. The emergency alarm system in Wanganui will not be used on Saturday. As an alternative, on this occasion personnel will leave for their posts immediately they hear the time signal broadcast from 2YA at 2 p.m. When all personnel are assembled al their posts, group leaders will sign a form, giving details of the time taken to muster and dispatch it by messenger to headquarters at Central Fire Station. Certain personnel will be inspected at their stations by the chairman of the Wanganui Fire Board. Mr. G. P. Hawkins, and the superintendent, Mr. N. M. Ross. Members of the lire-watching and fire-guard services established in the I business area will also attend the ration with incendiary bombs. AWARDED D.F.C. I LIGHT-LIE! JEN AN I FROM AICnLAND (P.A.' Wellington, March 10. I Participating in more than fifty (operational sorties over hostile terrijtory and waters, destroying at least (three enemy aircraft, and throughout ‘showing great skill and determinal ion, 1 acting-Flight - Lieutenant Graham (Howe Francis, R.N.Z.A.F., has been awarded the Distinguished Flying I Cross, according to official information received by the Air Headquarters, Wellington. Flight-Lieutenant Francis, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. H. Francis Takapuna, was born ai Wigan, England. in April. 1916, and was employed by an Auckland mercantile firm al the time he commenced training in December, 1939. He was educated at ihp Takapuna Grammar School. (w here he had a distinguished record. ANOTHER AWARD (P.A.) Wellington. March 10. The Distinguished Flying Cross has been awarded acting-Flight-Lieuten-ant William Vernon Crawford Compion. R.A.F.. according to official advice received at Air Headquarters Wellington. He was born at Invercargill.