INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
New Zealand Legislation Criticized (P.A.) DUNEDIN, December 12. In an address on industrial hygiene to the Manufacturers’ Association, Dr J. M. Davidson, who is on loan by Britain to the New Zealand Health Department, staled that New Zealand’s legislation was often too detailed, minute items swamping more important factors. The Dominion was less advanced in factory legislation and the general housekeeping in factories was disappointingly low in standard. “No young person under 14 is permitted to work in a British factory no matter what the circumstances,” said Dr Davidson, “but in New Zealand it is possible to employ a girl of 13 up to 56 hours. That is not leading the world and it is not good enough.” There was a common tendency in the Dominion to blame the war for the conditions he had met, but English standards had not been lowered one iota on that account.
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Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 6
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