TRENCH DIGGING
INSUFFICIENT RESPONSE Trench-digging operations were continued in the environs of Victoria Street on Saturday afternoon but at the conclusion of the afternoon’s activity there was work which would occupy a hundred men another day still undone. The Mayor and chief warden, Mr H. D. Caro, said today that with the fall of Singapore announced the situation regarding Australia and New Zealand was much more complex and the trenches must be completed so that in the event of further southward movements by the Japanese forces New Zealand would have protection against air raids for the civil population.
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Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21655, 16 February 1942, Page 4
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