AIR RAID DEFENCE.
APPORTIONING THE COST. POWERS OF LOCAL BODIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 29. Reference was made by the Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) to the difference which has arisen between local authorities and the Central Government regarding the apportionment of the cost of air-raid precautions when he informed the House of Commons to-day that legislation would be required to'place the Government expenditure on air-raid precautions on a proper statutory basis and remove any doubt as to the powers of local authorities. A Bill for the purpose was being drafted. When it had reached a more advanced stage opportunity would he afforded for representatives of local authorities to confer with the Government, and he hoped it might be possible to reach a satisfactory agreement as to the allocation of the expenditure. Whatever financial arrangements were ultimately decided would be applied retrospectively to a date which it was contemplated would be January 1 this year. He trusted local authorities which had not begun the preparation of plans would not think it necessary to wait until financial arrangements had been placed on a statutory basis.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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185AIR RAID DEFENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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