NEW LIGHTS OF DAGENHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 10 (Supplement)

NEW LIGHTS OF DAGENHAM.

WARNING FOR FLYING-MEN. High above Dagenham, near London, two red beacons may now be seen at night They are the-neon lights on the tops of the great towers carrying the electric power cables across the Thames. A sunvalve operates the lamps, switching them on as daylight fades and off as it returns. These 490-feet towers are now completed, and, apart from their great height, they stand out conspicuously by day, having been painted with alternate horizontal bands of red and white. In addition to the top beacons there are great diagonal crosses on the sides of the towers at heights of 160 feet and 320 feet above ground-level. Beacons also shine out from the tops of the two 100-feet anchor towers which help to support the great weight of the power cables. . , Flying-men can see the warning beacons 15 miles away in normal conditions. WILLIAM WANLESS. HE GAVE HIMSELF FOR OTHERS. There has just died in California a Canadian whose name will never be forgotten in India. William Wanless was a brilliant

physician and surgeon, who might have enjoyed the great power and wealth if he had lived for his own career. Instead of that he spent 40 years as a medical missionary in Indian To begin with he had a mud hut. Gradually he built up Miraj Hospital, with its branch dispensaries, and a medical school. He performed thousands of operations a year. He wrote valuable papers on medical subjects. ■- When •he retired India’s gratitude was shown by the establishment of a tuberculosis sanatorium named after him, and the Aga Khan presented him with a silver casket, saying: “You have kept before yourself two ideals, the glory of the Lord whom you serve and the service of suffering humanity.” He was knighted, and was presented with the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in gold. Now, after only five years of leisure, this man who worked so hard for others has died. But his work goes on, and his name will live as long as the sanatorium continues its splendid work of bringing hope to the hopeless.