SAMPLE FOR NAVY OFFICE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 136, 5 March 1941, Page 10

SAMPLE FOR NAVY OFFICE

Oiled Mittens For Seamen

That she had spoken to her husband about Captain A. V. Hale Monro’s suggestion of oiled mittens for the greater comfort of men of the sea and that he had expressed his willingness to submit a sample to the correct Navy Office authorities was mentioned by Mrs. W. E. ,Parry, wife of Commodore Parry, when the mittens were being discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the executive committee of the Wellington branch of the Navy League. On the suggestion of the chairman, Mr. P. B. Cooke, it was agreed that Captain Monro accompany Commodore Parry when the sample was submitted. Mrs. L. O. H. Tripp, president-of the women’s auxiliary, displayed a sample calico mitten she had made and which Captain Monro had oiled, and favourable comment was passed on it as it was-handed round the meeting. The approximate cost of the mittens, without being oiled, would be fid. a pair, said Mrs. Tripp. Oiled mittens, worn over the woollen gloves at present in use, would prevent spray and rain soaking and, occasionally, freezing on the gloves—this latter experience being most painful Captain Monro said.