SOCIAL WELFARE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 53, 18 March 1937, Page 5

SOCIAL WELFARE

-Press Association.)

State Bureau To Be Set Up FIRST APP0INTMENTS

(By Telegraph-

CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The Minister for Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G, Sullivan, has received Government approval for his plan to establish a Bureau of Social Service. The bureau has been established to assist the Government m basing its decisions of a soeial charaeter on scientifically established fact. It has been decided that the Bureau wiR not funetion as a separate research unit, but as a committee of the existing GouncR of Scientific and Industrial Research and its work will be definitely associated with the work of the couneil in investigating the problems concerninng the social welfare of the people .of New Zealand. The Minister indicated that it was intended to have members on the Bureau representing all the social research activities now going on in the country as well as all those classes of the community affected by the investigations. Appointments made to date include the following: Dr. Elizabetb Gunn, Dr. C. E. Beeby, Dr E. Marsden, Mr E. H. Langford, Mr G. H. 'Ormond Wilson, M.P., Mr D. Wilson. Dr. Dunn is well-known ,for her work as Acting-Director of the Division of Sehool Hygiene. Dr. Beeby was formerly lecturer in psychology at CanterOury University College and was acting Pxofessor of Education for some time while at Canterbury College. He became noted for his work on the industrial application of psychology and in recent years, has been a director for the New Zealand Couneil of Education Research established by the Carnegio Corporation. Mr Langford is attached to the secretarial staff of the Minister for Industries and Commerce and is an economist closely interested in social science. Dr. Marsden is secretary of the Department ,pf Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr Ormond Wilson is one of the co-opted members working with the Minister for Finance. Mr Wilson is national secretary oi the New Zealand Labour Party. The Minister said to-.day that additional appointments would ensure adequate fepresentation for the universities, where much valuable work on social research was carried out year by year, and probably one or two Trades Union representatives.