TO HELP MAKE BETTER CUPS AND SAUCERS

Chronicle (Levin), 27 August 1947, Page 5

TO HELP MAKE BETTER CUPS AND SAUCERS

— WKLL1XGTOX, August - 26. An improvement in tlie i|uuiitity and ipiality not only of New Zealand cups am! saucers but also of a xvido range of articles the averuge lumseliolder rarelv realises, is expected as the result of a projected potterv and ceramics research in the Lominion. A few of the lines affected were mentioned to a reporter by Mr. William A ose who has arrived in Wellington from Britain to work for the Xew Zealand Potterv and Ceramic Alanui'acturers' Research Assjciation. Ile lirings with him honours degrees in physics and chemistry and tiie prestige which goes with a speeial medal of the London I'itv and Guilds, liiembership of the Institute of Chemistry, and tiie Ceramic Society of Great Britain. "From tlu; time he gets up in the morning, " said Mr. Yose, "a citi/.eu is in constant, though often uriconscious, touch with pottery auu ceramics. Ile meets them lirst at his morning wash in the bathroorn and tlum again on the crockery of the breakfasi table. lf he switches on the lights or indio he is in coniact with ceramic^ while further away jmwer lines, transformers and condensers for bringing the power to the lumse require the seiviees of the pottery and ceramic imlus- f trv. lf his liome uses gas it comes from retorts requiring lire bricks. Furnaces for heating water or making steel or bricks to build houses, tiles to root them, eiuunel for their stoves, artiliciul jewellery and glassware are all as sociated with ceramics." lAir. Yose said Xew Zealand was jusl as well placed as other countries for raw materials neeessary in the ceranii-— industry but speeial probiems remaiued to be examined. The aim of the research he was going to ilirect was to j secure the fuli utilisation of indigenous raw materials to produce the highest grade of goods artisticallv and teclini cally, on the most eeonomieal basis.