CHEAP SUN GLASSES

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 10

CHEAP SUN GLASSES

Concern Shown At Opticians Conference

Considerable concern was expressed at the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Opticans, held in Christchurch last Saturday, at the present indiscriminate supply to the publie of cheap grade sun-goggles, as it was stated that the ultimate effect of wearing such inferior mid substitute quality resulted in the unhealthy performance of vision. The session of the conference Uns year was confined to one day, because of the number of members serving with the Forces, and the difficulty of present members sparing any lunger period from their practices.

Attention was directed toward consideration mid examination of matters of ocular hygiene in its relationship toward tlie public interest and in which it was the profession's responsibility to direct ami promote Hie needs of the public in the attainment of visual efficiency and compensation of defective sight’

At the close of the conference members expressed their appreciation of the executive’s work in establishing still further the advance and essentia] nature of the service of the profession in the community’s nectls, in caring for the welfare of its sight.