AIR RAID SHELTERS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20785, 21 April 1939, Page 2

AIR RAID SHELTERS

NOT WANTED IN GLASGOW WOMAN’S PROTEST HEEDED (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, March 9 The Housing Committee here has agreed, as the result of a woman’s protest, to suspend the supply of steel air-raid shelters, except where the householder asks for one to be delivered, reports the Glasgow correspodent of the News Chronicle. The first shelter to be erected in the city—in a garden six yards by six yards—is almost a foot deep in water. Mrs John MacGregor says her garden has been ruined by men who carried out the digging against her orders, and by sightseers. Mrs MacGregor, who lives in Cladden Street, Possil, joined a deputation of tenants to meet the Corporation Housing Committee to-day, and they protested against the shelters as “ attrocities in their gardens and worse than useless as protection against air raids.” “ Called the Police ” Parts of more than 100 shelters are now lying on the Possil housing estate. Two hundred Corporation workmen sent to do excavation work have had to suspend operations. Mrs MacGregor told me, “ When I saw men digging up the back garden I called the police, but was told that they had no powers in the matter.” One boy was sailing a boat in the shelter to-day; others were paddling in it.