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GAME PLAYED IN GAS-MASKS. MATCH AT GRAVESEND. Men in gas-masks played a game of bowls on the ground of the Gravesend Cricket and Bowling Club. Kent. Some of the visitors who saw the match did not realise the serious nature of the experiment. The bowlers decided to give their town and county a lead in getting used to gas-masks, just to show that the wealing of a gas-mask really presents little inconvenience when one is accustomed to it.' According to a. member of the club the idea met with enthusiastic support from the players.
The Mayor of Gravesend, who is president of the club, led the masked bowlers on to the green. Service, civilian duty and civilian masks were worn, and though the heal made the test a severe one the players came through the ordeal with Hying colours. Visibility was good, and the lettering, on the county scoreboard, 187 yards away, discernible through the mica of the masks. The players conversed without difficulty, and there was no embarrassment in breathing, there was just one “snag." however--the playeis could not smoke. Spectators were encouraged to try out their masks and advised to persevere for a few minutes each ciay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 6
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201BOWLS UP=TO=DATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 6
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