GLOVES FOR SAILORS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 8

GLOVES FOR SAILORS

Oiled Covers Suggested On the suggestion of Captain A. V. H. Monro at yesterday’s meeting of the elecutive committee of the Wellington branch of the Navy League, a subcommittee was set up to inquire into the question of providing oiled covers for the gloves and mittens used by seamen for whom the branch catered. If the Navy authorities approved the idea, and the committee would approach them with completed covers of the type it believed suitable, this move was sure to find wider appreciation, it was thought. The committee comprises Mesdames L. O. H. Tripp and W. E. Parry and Captain Monro. Captain Monro based his recommendation on practical experience. He could remember how woollen gloves and mittens became soaked by spray or rain after about five minutes in beavv weather, and how sometimes when they were thus saturated they would freeze. To overcome this bitter experience, sailors during his period at sea — several years ago now, he admitted — hud stout calico covers made, with tapes attached about the wrists so I lint when the covers were worn they could be secured, and the whole dipped in linseed oil. The resultant effect was obvious.