STANDARDS INSTITUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 10

STANDARDS INSTITUTE

FAILURE TO FUNCTION

MANUFACTURERS DIS-

APPOINTED

Though the Wellington Manufacturers' Association is wholly in accord with the principle of the full establishment of a Standards Institute, in the interests of public economy as well as in the simplification and improvement of manufactu>in^ technique, the general committee of the association last night decided to support the following remit which is to be discussed at the conference of the New Zealand Federation:

"That no recommendation be made to associations this year with regard to the repetition of financial contributions to the Standards Institute."

Speakers expressed the opinion that further financial support to the institute was not warranted until such time as the 'organisation was prepared or able to function more actively. The action of the association in withholding financial support at the present stage was not to be taken as suggesting that manufacturers did not appreciate the material benefits which would follow the active work of the institute, but as a protest against its present failure to function.

Through falling off his bicycle and under a horse lorry in Featherston Street this morning, G. Muir, a watersider. of Kaiwarra, fractured his right thumb, and received a lacerated wound on his scalp, and over his right eye. He was taken to the hospital by the Wellington Free Ambulance.