He was impressed with the standard of work done by New Zealand opticians, said Mr Max Wiseman, a manufacturer of optical goods, of London, who is visiting Christchurch. Their methods of sight-testing -and of fitting spectacles were more advanced than in many European countries. "This is a fact —not an optical illusion,” he said. Mr Wiseman said his firm manufactured 36,000 pairs of lenses and 20,000 frames a week. Contact lenses did not lend themselves to factory production and none were made by his firm, he said. A number of people used them in England, but they did not remedy every type of refraction error. Spectacles were still the universal remedy.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25742, 2 March 1949, Page 4
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