SCIENCE CONGRESS
DISCUSSION ON INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. Melbourne, January 13. The Science Congress discussed industrial fatigue. Mr. H. Heaton said that employers were considering human as well as mechanical wear and tear. The policy of excessive ’hours during the early days of the war produced exhaustion, which had reacted disastrously on the output of munitions. Observation had demonstrated that in general a 48-houi week was more productivie than a 55 or 66-hour week. Tho Congress resolved that a committee should investigate and report to the next. Congress on industrial fatigue in Australia. Other papers urged that the organisation of scientific research should be ■on a proper footing; the proclaiming of Macquarie Island as a national fauna reserve, and the probability of utilising the prickly pear for stock or human food. —Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 94, 14 January 1921, Page 5
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134SCIENCE CONGRESS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 94, 14 January 1921, Page 5
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