PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE.
"It is estimated that 93 persons -in I every hundred in New Zealand are in the wrong work, that the average taan in the average' kind of work used only about one-tenth of his mental powers. It .is estimated that the average New Zealand family could live on what they waste; that the number of preventable deaths occurring in New Zealand every year is 6300. and that 47.Q00 people are always on the sick list from ailments that are preventable, as a result of which it costs you three and a half millions. of money. We. need efficiency as a people," declared Mr..W.- S. Binks last night in the course of a very provocative address to an audience that filled the Concert. Chamber of the Town Hall. His . subject was "Increasing Mental and Physical Efficiency." -"The average person is riot organised, is not really.alive, and does not know what he wants," said Mr. Binks. "This is the day of the man wlio acts, who sees what should be done, and;who does it. Efficiency is the science of self-man-agement:" ;Mr. Binks will deliver his last lecture tonight..
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 5
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