BLACKOUT TEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 71, 25 March 1941, Page 5

BLACKOUT TEST.

POINTED CRITICISM.

HOSPITAL BOARD VIEWS.

There was pointed criticism at a meeting of the Auckland Ho-pital Board la-t evening of the Auckland blackout arrangements. Mr. I. I'arvin -said that the hoard had -pent £l(Mt at the infirmary on Marking out. but other pla<-e> were a blag# of lipht. The chairman. Mr. Allan .1. Moodv, raid they had been fooling with the petition lon™ enough, and it was time that the public jjot s-oiDe honest truth from somebody in authority. There mijiht be a r-hojtape of coal or electric power. iml he. did not know. "J he suburb* had Wen tiyiii" to make a -ticcf— of Ihe blackout. and ]»cople came into ihe city to lin.l all the liphl they waril;-d. 1 lie Itev . \\ . t. Wood described Milford an.! Takapuna a- bcin™ ""as Mark a- the ace. of rpade-."' In \icw of the lijlht*. ;n other places, there wa- a feelin? of indignation, and people fell that they had bccji treated like children. I>r. .1. I*. Hastings said that in London eminent authorities were divided ng the. cpic-lion whether a blackout wa- & he,]i or a h"ndian<e. Mi. ■' \ . Ma k \ -.aid the w <•' e Iminu th • «reate-t diflicu'tv irj dei-idin™ what wa- -k> plow. 1«, ,<• cff«-ct i \ v the m heme had to be one ihinj •or tho other. No motion wa - carried.