N.Z. SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
Sir, —“The Press” of Saturday reports that more than 150 heads of government departments, local body officers, scientists and engineers saw machines in Wellington, one of which artificially ages glazed plates, etc., to an equivalent of months and years of service. What merit has this? Another measures the whiteness of a piece of washed material? Has the good laundress ever been mistaken? In Victoria’s time hours of labour went to the false graining of decent timber and the rendering of it extended to imitating stone. Why? Was not this practice decried as worthless sham without relation to use, purpose or ornament, not to mention art or craftsmanship? What has progress in New Zealand to dp with imitating antiques? Are not time and research and money more necessary for important matters of health than production of what would, by respectable potters, have been termed crazed or faulty articles.— Yours, etc., LABOUR’S LOSS. February 14, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27274, 15 February 1954, Page 2
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