INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE.
DISCUSSED BY SCIENCE CONCRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and X.Z. Cable Association (Received January 13, 11.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 13. The Science Congress discussed the subject of industrial fatigue. Mr .T. Heaton said that employers were considering human as well as mechanic wear and tear. The policy of excessive hours during the early days of the \var produced exhaustion, which reacted disastrously oil the output of munitions. Observation had demonstrated that in general a forty-eight hour week was more productive than a fifty-five or sixtv-six hour week. The Congress passed a motion that a committee investigate and report to the next Congress on industrial fatigue in Australia. Other papers urged the organisation of scientific research on a proper footing, the proclamation of the Macquarie islands as a national faunal reserve, and the possibility of utilising prickly pear for stock or human food.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16324, 13 January 1921, Page 7
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