FLANNELETTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8028, 15 January 1906, Page 3

FLANNELETTE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —I persist in maintaining, in spile of your long footnote, that the danger in using this very useful material has been very much overstated. I don't wear it myself, but I have this morning taken a large piece ami allowed it to hang as it would in a garment, and I found the greatest difficulty in milking the blaze (ravel ove: tie Hefty surface. (If course anyone knows tha fire will burn, and it is more thai probable that all the children yon re cr to would have lost their lives had they been wearing the ordinary cotton garments in use before flannelette was discovered. The other day you reported a case of a woman having lost her life through her clothing having caught fire. Would you, because of this ease, advise people (as you did in your article re consumption among native people) to return to the native costume? The mere fact that the British Medical Association has joined the New .Zealand Parliament in discussing this question proves nothing more than that there are now two associations prepared to legislate upon any subject under the sun, however quixotic.—l am, etc.,

New Plymouth, January 13th. [Our correspondent's persistency is | praiseworthy, but quite unconvincing. I The records speak for themselves, and further discussion is unnecessary.--ED.[