SIREN AT MID DAY
RESULT OF FIRST TEST Many residents listened at midday today for the sound of the siren lately established on top of the old municipal water-supply tower. The sound was heard in the main portion of the borough, but inquiry shows that most of those who heard it mistook it for one of the factory whistles or a train I whistle. Others said they thought it i was a new air-raid alarm being j tested by the borough engineering j department. Inquiries in other parts of the bor- I ough revealed that the siren was I heard faintly at Frankton, Whitiora j and Hamilton East. One resident j commented that he heard it only \ through being in the street at Ham- I Ilton East, explaining that had he been indoors the siren must have • been quite inaudible. It is officially stated that today’s test must be regarded only as a trial. Volume will be steadily improved until the siren can be distinctly heard all over the borough on normal days. Asked if it were to be used in the event of an air-raid alarm, the engineer in charge said that this was the intention. It would be sounded at approximately noon on week days while tests were being made to find a “dead” area that was evident when earlier air-raid alarms were sounded. Today observers in various parts of Hamilton participated in the checking that is considered necessary.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22010, 12 April 1943, Page 4
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