Royalty's Interest In Safety First.

His Royal Highness the Duke of York's interest in the Safety First movement is well known. After acting for three years as President of the London Safety First Council, he graciously consented to become Patron of the National Safety First Association-an organisation which numbers amongst its vice-presidents some of the most noted men in British industry and public life.

The third annual report of the Association which is just to hand, besides containing ample evidence of the steady progress of the Association's work in the field of industrial and public safety, contains a report of the Duke of York's appeal at the last annual dinner. In the course of his speech, the Duke affirmed the principles of Safety First to be “common sense and thought for others; principles which, if well and truly applied, would go far to solve, not only the accident problem, but many other ills from which all nations were suffering.” He went on to say that by training people to think more deeply before they acted the Association would be helping to prevent accidents ofother kinds than those which figured on their programme. “Let me” concluded the Duke “remind all my listeners that this is a sound, common-sense movement for the preservation of life and limb. There can be no nobler ideal; no higher form of service.”

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