NEW TIN HATS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 7, 23 January 1942, Page 2

NEW TIN HATS

FOR A THIRD OF ALL BRITONS One inhabitant of Britain in every three has a tin hat now that 2,700,000 of a new type have been added to the 14,000,000 already supplied to the fighting forces, the Home Guard, the civil Defence services, fire-wat- ! chprs and industrial workers. The latest styles, which is for firewatchers and industrial workers, is shaped like- a pudding basin. It hasbeen designed by the Ministry of Supply with an adjustable band inside the rim to lit trimly over a woman's hair without a chin strap. The band is adjusted by a shoe-lace threaded through holes drilled in the rim. Tin hats have reached the enormous total of 1(5,700,000 because of a simple engineering process they can be stamped out from sheet metal in one single press operation, which produces the hat from the die. The subsequent drilling and finishing is an easy job, quickly done. I

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Radios Increase An increase of 15,210 in the number of all classes of radio licenses in force on November 30, 1941,. compared with the number at the same time in 1940, is shown in the rej turns prepared by the Director-Gen-eral of the Post and Telegraph Department. The new grand total is 365,554. Receiving licenses showed the largest increase, the new figurp of 3613,063 being a rise of 15,132.. During the 3 r eai\. the number of radio dealers has dropped from 1029 to 981. Wrong- Addresses "A return taken recently showed that k\ssi than 15 per cent of letters addressed to post office private-box holders included the box number in the address. Also a large proportion of letters addressed to residents do not include the number of the house for which they are intended," said the Postmaster-iGeneral, Mir Webb, last week. These omissions, Mr Webb explained, not only meant extra work for the post office but in som*; cases involved delay in delivery. Many postal workers were temporary with but little post office cx-

perience, and they could not be expected to know the private-box numbers of business firms. Some of the assistants had no local knowledge of the towns in which they were employed, having come' in many in-i stances from places far afield.