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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 March 1915, Page 6

Ladies actuated "by a desire to do their share towards ensuring the comfort of the soldiers of the Expeditionary Forces have found a happy way of contributing to this desirable end by the knitting" of woollen socks. However, 6ays the "New Zealand Times," two lady workers whoi had adopted this means have been I:unpleasantly surprised to find that lately the price of knitting wool has been increased by Is, making the'price 56 6d."per pound. *lt is suggested that the Government might, in the circumstances, adopt such steps as to prevent unwarranted increases in. the cost to the purchaser, and, if necessary, establish depots for' the sale of yarn made; from New Zealand wool. It is also suggested that this course might be adopted with regard to other New Zealand products. In the course of a lecture at the Con servatorie des Arts et Metiers, in the middle of December, Professor Vioile stated that the Hughes balance was now Being used to locate bullets in wounds. It was enough, he declared, to pass one of the bobbins over the body of the wounded man, and to listen at the telephone to find the exact spot. The system is very simple and very certain, and would be of inestimable value where radiographic apparatus was not availof two bobbins cdnnected so as to make a " balance Set ween two ' primaries and secondaries. When the balance is established the telephone apparatus which is fixed between them makes no sound, but when one of the bobbins comes near-a .metallic body the equilibrium is destroy, ed, and the telephone vibrates. "***,*'?'■;"■;: