Air Raid Precautions In
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Fiji
AIR-RAID precautions are being taken seriously in Fiji—rightly so, con sidering Fiji’s strategical position in the Pacific.
Periodical shelter tests are made, when all Civil Defence personnel turn out, the streets are cleared, and everyone not on defence work must go to the shelters.
All sections of the community have co-operated wholeheartedly in these tests.
The worst feature appears to be the crowding at the entrances of the shelters of people who are anxious to see what is going on outside. There has been an appeal to all those not yet engaged on direct war work to undertake the duties of shelter warden—people who will make it their business to be early on the scene after a raid warning, and who will see that good order is maintained within
the shelters.
It is considered that the Fiji Civil Defence service has reached a satisfactory standard and that the Colony is now much better prepared to meet any emer gency than it was a few months ago.