BLACKOUT TRIAL TOMORROW

Southland Times, Issue 24885, 27 October 1942, Page 4

BLACKOUT TRIAL TOMORROW

The full conditions governing tomorrow evening’s blackout trial in Invercargill and Waikiwi are advertised in today’s issue. The trial will begin at 8.25 p.m. and will continue for an hour and 20 minutes. During that period, no light must be allowed to escape from any house, factory, or other building. Special headlamp masks are being provided for E.P.S. and doctors’ cars so that wardens and law and order officers will give them right of passage. The regulations limit non-official vehicles to the use of parking lights only, screened with the equivalent of two thicknesses of newspaper, and it is an offence under the regulations not to carry the screening material in the vehicle at all times. Cyclists, including E.P.S. messengers, must screen their lights, and all torches have to be specially masked. Steps are being taken to observe the effectiveness of the blackout from suitable points. Faith in Leaders

“There is a pompous, self-assertive end rather obnoxious little self in each one of us, and it is often this little fellow who dictates our war strategy,” said the Rev. Dr Alexander Hodge, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, Auckland, in an address to the Auckland Junior Chamber of Commerce. “The great peril about all second front ideals is that they interfere with concentration on the job immediately before us. ‘lf only’ will not win this war. There will be as many fronts as there are frontiers, before we are through. Let us couple a decent faith in our leaders with a maximum effort all round, new.”