BOYS WARNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 112, 15 May 1933, Page 8

BOYS WARNED.

DANGER OF KITE FLYING, . CONTACT WITH LIVE WIRES • •" " • The necessity to warn hoys not to fi' kites in-localities where electric *;' are erected was emphasised »t «. mornings meeting of the Waitemah Electric Power Board. The '«nie»rarose when it was reported that; kites were entangled in the board's wl '< on the Kelston Estate, New Lynn I Mr. R, Wright undertook to addr? the New Lynn schoolboys on the danm! of flying kites close to power lines. Mr. G. Trevithick said boyg lad h. ! known to entangle their kites in jf J tension wires and have turns of puiij? . their tails to 6ee if they would receiw : j any shock. In their efforts to free kit i that had looped amongst the wires inm I often occurred by two lines being j o jnaj together. "We have enough trouble witt ; the wind," he said, "and should not bar to put up with the kite danger." H e J plained that kite-flying was a mania at Devonport, where it had been Teported that five gross of kites had been distributed by one person alone. All the boroughs should co-operate in passhw : by-laws, preventing kite-flying. ■ Mr. J. Guiniven said he had .proposed a by-law for the Takapuna Boroiieh Council prohibiting kite-flying, but hid received no support. Mr. A. Day considered that a placaM should be placed in a prominent position in all schools warning boys of the danger of their kites becoming entangled °jn electric wires. It was decided to send a letter to all schools in the board's districts, askiii» the teachers to warn their classes of the dangers.