RAIDERS IN PACIFIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 July 1941, Page 4

RAIDERS IN PACIFIC.

CAUSED LIGHT REtfRICTJONS. (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON, July 17. The depredations of riders in' the Pacific last year convirVd the Government that the introduAion of lightI ing restrictions could rib \nger he dei layed, said the Acting-Pi\ lc Minister ! (Mr Nash) in a statenpt on the > necessity for blackouts id reduced j lighting in the Dominion i,thc House of Representatives. In modified form iri which the reguhjons had ; been imposed, he said, nafely reducjed lighting, they did causey measure of inconvenience to the üblic but | they nevertheless were theWsonable minimum essential for the IV-poses of defence. j A full blackout had not l>h impos- ; ed —although it would beiecessary I under certain conditions—aihis was not justified as a full-time mdure and I would have caused unnecess.4 incon- ! venienco to the public. Thiaction, continued Mr Nash, had bel taken bv the Government on the iVice of the chiefs of staff. Mr Nashjso explained the reasons for the|estrictiqns on vehicle lighting wth, he said, had only been imposed air'full consideration by the chiefs of iff. It had been suggested in soniq uartors that the restrictions were ihosed to reduce the consumption of Vctrie power, but the economy in this|irection was completely unrelated I the imposition of reduced lighting, lianv ease, added the Minister, econorif, the use of lighting was negfible compared with the economy * c }{ could be_ effected in the use of ]i c r for heating, cooking, water-healrr and industrial uses. f"