WASTE EVIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 9

WASTE EVIDENT

LACK OF STANDARDS IN

INDUSTRY

"The obvious 'waste which arises from lack of standards in industry, resulting in the manufacture of a superfluous diversity of \types of goods and duplication of stocks,.is evident in this country," states the annual report, of the New Zealand Standards Institute. "In all plans prepared by the Bureau of Industry, consideration has therefore been given to the question of standards, and it is pleasing to report that the interests concerned have been quick to recognise the benefits to be derived from the application of the standards principle. Consequently, a number of industries are making every endeavour to formulate satisfactory standards. v "Two important matters which were specifically > referred to the Standards Institute from the Bureau were the preparation of a standard specification for the treatment, grading, and classification of hides, yearlings, and calfskins, and the standardisation and simplification of the statistical and financial returns required by the Government from industry.

"In addition to these, the Standards Institute is collaborating with the Bureau of Industry and the Department of Industries and Commerce in the formulation and adoption of standards for a number of industries, including asbestos-cement products, pharmaceutical goods, and footwear.'

"The work of the Bureau of Industry has therefore assisted in securing the fuller development and adoption of standards in* this Dominion, with resultant benefit to both consumer and producer."