BUSINESS SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 9

BUSINESS SCIENCE

LECTURE BY Jill. A. DEER. At the Accountants' Institute last evening a fair number oi' business men assembled by invitation to hear Air. Andrew Deer's Address on the subject of "The Classified Cominonscnso of Business Efficiency." Jlr. Deer was asked, by the Wellington. Committee to speak here. Tho Wellington Committee is identical with- the committees at Auckland, Palmerston. North, Wanganui, Napier, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Milton. The bodies in the various cities and towns are known as tho Business Science Circles. The second circle has ljccn formed in Auckland, and tho second was formed in Wellington last evening. Arrangements have, Mr. Deer said, been completed to bring to New Zealand a speci-ally-qualified man to make monthly visits to tho different centres. Ho will delivor lectures on tho science of business, the psychology of service-, scientific thinking, and remembering and imagining, for business men. Kβ will also locturo on tho science- of employment. Tho membership of tho various Business Science Circles throughout Now Zeoland was stated to bo nearly 200, of which 80 per cent. were- from tho front ranks of tho business and professional lifo of tho Dominion. During tho lecture Mr. Deer used a blackboard with good effect to portray somo ot his different types of man, and tho peculiarities of shape, principally of tho head, and what they denoted. Ho stated that more than 200,000 men and women had been scientifically selected for their different tasks in America, in accordance with tho principles which underlie ecieneo selection. While Btill with tho blackboard he explained that it had been found that it was of no uso to employ people of light hair and blue eyes for monotonous work, and in other cases not only tho colour of tho ihaiv and. eyos but the texturo of tho liair and ekin were considered.

Air. Deer finished his lectnro by slating thnt 03 well ns tho science classes on tho subject thero were to be junior classes established. The movement, he said," was making great strides, especially in England, which was doinr better than America. In Capo Town and South Africa they had spent rorao firo years, and tlio membership wns now increasing at tho rato of somo 300 every montli. After lecturing at Auckland, Mr. Deer proceeds oacfc to Australia.