CO129-572-1 Air raid precautions- supply of equipment 8-7-1938 - 25-11-1938 — Page 29

AIR MAIL

No. 541

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H. K.

Sir,

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HOUSE,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

29 END

HONG KONG,

8th July, 1938.

I have the honour to refer to your staff despatch No. 65 of the 19th of May, 1938, regarding the attendance of Lance Sergeant 0. Bower, Hong Kong Police Force, at the Civilian Anti-Gas School, Falfield, and to request that arrangements may be made to send out at once the necessary instructor's equipment together with a full set of protective clothing as laid down in Appendix C to Air Raid Precautions Memorandum No. 5. Without such equipment Sergeant Bower's services as an Instructor cannot be

utilised. It would be desirable for the clothing to consist of fifty per cent of tropical type and fifty per cent of the heavy type. Expenses in this connection may be recovered through the Crown Agents.

2.

In general also in future I should be glad if instructions might be issued that any official of the Hong Kong Government who is required to take an Instructor's course in Air Raid Precautions should be supplied with the necessary clothing and equipment, so that on his return with it to the Colony he may be in a position at once to enter upon the work of instruction.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant

ass. hathas

Governor.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c.,

&c., &c.