The Christchurch Star. PUBLISHED BY New Zealand Newspapers Ltd. Gloucester Street and Cathedral Square CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND. London Representatives: R. B. BRETT & SON NEW BRIDGE HOUSE, 30/34 NEW BRIDGE STREET LONDON, E.C.4. MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1930. HEALTH AND INDUSTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19247, 8 December 1930, Page 8

The Christchurch Star. PUBLISHED BY New Zealand Newspapers Ltd. Gloucester Street and Cathedral Square CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND. London Representatives: R. B. BRETT & SON NEW BRIDGE HOUSE, 30/34 NEW BRIDGE STREET LONDON, E.C.4. MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1930. HEALTH AND INDUSTRY.

T TEALTH' regulations in industry are perhaps the most significant feature of modern industrial expansion,’and it is recognised that good output and good earnings depend on good health. From the point of view of self-interest it is being brought home to the employers that contented and happy workers earn the most money, and this principle has been carried out in the provision of rest pauses for workers. Statistics show that the worker starts at about 10 per cent below his full speed, and in half-an-hour gains full speed. Then there is a falling-off, which is regained by a rest pause, and this prevents too steep a descent in the curve of production. Some firms have given ordinary workers fourteen days’ holiday in the year, provided that they spend the time at some approved health resort, and this emphasises the obligation of the worker to his employer. Too many young people so tire themselves out with Saturday night dancing and Sunday tennis that they are not fit to do an honest day’s work on Monday, and those who try to live up to a standard beyond their means also court inefficiency in their work. Welfare societies, therefore, are concerned not only with hygienic working conditions but with the intelligent and wholesome use of leisure hours, and that is a direction in which the worker has a distinct obligation towards his employer.