Wartime emergency services

Unique IDAY-0066Description*** This activity applies to all Councils ***

The primary responsibility of local governments seems to have been preparation of air raid shelters.

On 27 September 1939 the Finance Committee discussed the printing of a leaflet about air raid precautions. [CRS 11/34] CreationNational Emergency Service Act 1942 (not sighted but appears to make municipal government responsible for local wartime emergency measures)

Series

Paddington Register of Building Applications

Survey of the Buildings and Land in the Municipality of Paddington

Military Hospitals Advisory Committee Records

Paddington Correspondence and Subject Files

Air Raid Shelter Plans

Air Raid Shelter Register

War Comfort Funds and Staff Enlistment Papers, Erskineville National Emergency Service (NES)

Paddington War Damage Assessment Rolls

Air Raid Shelter Files, 1942-1945

Town Clerk's Department Correspondence Files, 1914-1978 [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Minutes of the Finance Committee I [Municipal Council of Sydney], 1846-1973

Minutes of Special Committees, 1857-1950 [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Minutes of Council, 1842 - ongoing [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Description

Start date27th September 1939Start date qualifiercircaEnd date31st December 1945End date qualifierbyRelationship legacy dataRELATED TO: Suburban municipal government FN-0029 (27/9/1939 to 31/12/1945)
RELATED TO: Emergency services FN-0025 (27/9/1939 to 31/12/1945)

Identification

Source system ID66

Relationships

FunctionEmergency servicesSuburban municipal government

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Wartime emergency services