Page 4 Advertisements Column 4

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15480, 11 December 1913, Page 4

THE DANGERS OF DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT. Few people realise the risks they run in failing to attend to eye defects. Anyone who reads the daily papers will often notice accounts of accidents, sometimes ending fatally, brought about entirely by defective eyesight. People frequently, through short-sightedness, walk over the edge of the wharf, as was the case not so long ago at Northcote, or collide with objects which would easily have been avoided had the eyesight been perfect. Just a few days ago a terrible fatality occurred near Dunedin, when a wife, who suffered from very defective eyesight, gave her husband a dose of poison instead of influenza mixture. How many railway accidents and disasters at sea, involving the lives of thousands, arc traceable to some defect' in sight on the part of the engine-driver or the captain. In fact, numberless accidents could be instanced, for which failnro of the eyes to do their duty is responsible. Then there is another aspect of the case. Even though your sight is just fairly good, enough to serve you in the ordinary daily round without accident, there is the danger to yourself of any slight defect growing worse through neglect. Many of us keep on suffering pain from the eyes, always "hoping they will grow stronger." What a fond hope to cherish! Defective eves always go from bad to worse, unless they receive the right sort of assistance in time.'I*l1 * 1 Now we come to the part that Samuel Barry plays in averting the dangers arising from eye defects. He it is who carefully tests the eyes, and by fitting them with proper glasses aids them to overcome any defects. Thousands of people in Auckland have reason to be grateful to him. If you aro in trouble with your eyes, there is no reason why you should not swell the number. SAMUEL BARRY, Optical Specialist, 290, Queen Street, Auckland.