LESS NOISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 205, 30 August 1935, Page 7

LESS NOISE.

CRUSADE IN BRITAIN. Radios, Drills and Milk Cans Silenced. LEAGUE'S FIRST REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 0.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 29. The Anti-Noise League has issued its first annual report, which records valuable help received from the National Physical Laboratory, the Ministries of Transport and Health, the Royal Institute of British Architects, and industrial firms and others engaged on experimental work on the problem of noise. Many local authorities adopted a new model by-law controlling wireless loudspeakers. At least one authority agreed to the addition of the cost of silencers 011 road drills to contractors' estimates. Milk distributors arc co-operating in the campaign and silent electric vans or pneumatically-tyred horse-driven 1 vans are replacing the older types, white rubber devices are being used to deaden the noise of glass and metal containers. The report says development of public opinion is insistent on action to eliminate .unnecessary noise, and 4 the co-operation of experts, who understand the causes of noise, with the public, who suffer from jts effects, are two aims of the league.