Decimal Measures Wanted Too
(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, May 2. The adoption of a decimal system of weights and measures for New Zealand should be urged as soon as practicable after the change-over to decimal currency has been digested.
This statement was included in a remit adopted yesterday at the conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce.
Presenting the remit, Mr E. Fraser, of Canterbury, said that with decimal currency being adopted in New Zealand soon, the time was opportune to extend the decimal system to cover weights and measures.
He quoted a newspaper report which said a majority of industry in Britain favoured the adoption of the metric system as the primary and ultimately the only method of measurement in the United Kingdom. As importers and exporters
alike were exploring new markets, and even today conversion into the metric system was necessary, it would simplify business practice, he said, to have a common system instead of having to convert avoirdupois weight into the denominations applicable to the other countries’ systems of weights.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30740, 3 May 1965, Page 1
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