CO129-589-4 Air raid precautions- supply of equipment 1-11-1940 - 24-1-1941 — Page 7

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a further sum of $1,000,000 for this purpose and to

reduce the provision to be made in the draft 1941-42

estimates from $5,000,000 to $4,000,000. A further

supplementary vote of $3,000,000 under Head 32, War

Expenditure, Sub-head 2, Extraordinary Local Defence,

Item 3, Civil, was formally approved by the Finance

Committee on 19th December, 1940, in Finance Message

No.11 of 1940-41, Item No.253.

4. In paragraph 3 of my despatch referred to

above I also reported to Your Lordship that since the

beginning of July, 1940, measures have been in hand to

put the Air Raid Precautions Organization into a state

of readiness and that the expense of these measures is

covered by a Special Warrant for the sum of $422,000.

I have now to report that, in addition to the above

measures which are being carried out under the direct

control of the Director of Air Raid Precautions, many

other measures, chiefly for the protection and strengthening

of Government offices and buildings, are being carried out

under the control of the Director of Public Works. The

cost of these works, as they progress, is also for the

present being covered by Special Warrant and three Special

Warrants of $100,000 each (Nos. 281, 348 and 434 of 1940-41)

have been signed to date.

5. I have to request, therefore, in accordance with

Colonial Regulation No.265, Your Lordship's covering approval

of supplementary expenditure totalling (4,722,000 under

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