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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 209, 3 September 1941, Page 6

Aids to Hearing. Allegations that many persons suffering from hearing defects had been sold machines at a price disproportionate to their cost, that were out of date and gave no real benefit to the listener were made by Dr. ,T. Hardie Neil, president of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, at the ninth annual meeting in Auckland. Dr. Neil said locallymade approved hearing aids were of high quality. The proposal to control imports of aids was approved, but the restriction should apply only to those which did not measure up to the specifications of the New Zealand Standards Institute. The league also asked for the registration of technicians for tho repair and .servicing of hearing aids. The training of student teachers had k«cn continued.

New Jobs Wanted. “What does worry me sometimes is the thought of settling down. I don’t know how I’ll ever settle down to office work. I don’t even like sleeping in a building, and definitely dislike the thought of working indoors.” This is an extract from a soldier’s letter received in Invercargill recently. It is of interest to compare it with a statement made in Auckland recently by a farmersoldier back from Crete. He said he was not anxious to go hack to farming. He wanted another kind of job, but was not what it would be. Many of his comrades overseas thought the same way. They wanted to change their jobs—not to go back to the same hum-drum occupation from which they had been called away by the war.