Repairs to gas masks issued to the public are free until the end of February.
The usual charges have been suspended temporarily at the order of Mr Herbert Morrison, home secretary and minister of home security, who has given instructions for a special “drive” so that everyone’s respirator may be put in working order.
[From the Watford Observer of January 28, 1944]
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