REDUCING NOISE
CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND LOCAL BODIES CO-OPERATE British Wireless RUGBY. Aug. 29 The Anti-Noise League has issued its first annual report. This records the valuable help received from the National Physical Laboratory, the Ministries of Transport and Health, the Royal Institute of British Architects, and industrial firms and • others engaged in experimental work on the problem of noise. Many local authorities have adopted a new model by-law for the control of wireless loud-speakers. At least one authority has agreed to the addition of the cost of silencers on road drills to contractors' estimates. Milk distributors are co-operating in the campaign and silent electric vans or pneumatically-tyred horse-driven vans are replacing tho older types, while rubber devices are being used to deaden the noise of glass and metal containers'. Tho report says that public opinion is insistent. upon action to eliminate unnecessary noise, and the co-operation of experts, who understand the causes of noise, with the public, who suffer from its effects, is the aim of the leaguo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22202, 31 August 1935, Page 13
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