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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1928, Page 4

PLEASURE IN AA’ORK. Fatigue is the inevitable result of work done against the grain. For this reason the State itself, in its proper anxiety for the welfare of the citizens, is concerned ,-itli tests of vocational fitness. For the sake of the individual and of the community alike, occupation and aptitude must correspond. Alorcovei', an occupation rightly chosen must he rightly pursued. Every form of manual labour, he its form simple or complex, has its harmony with the natural rylithm of the body. Upon that Jiarniony all the delight of work depends. Wisdom in choice and happiness in performance—these are the results which flow from the application of' psychology al science to the problems of industry. It is no slight thing that the importance of this new field of inquiry should become apparent just now. The industrial world is weary of stiife. The directors of great businesses and the officers of great trade unions are making tentative approaches to one another. How can they fruitfully co-operate? The old issue of hours and wages, crowded as they are with controversial memories, offer no tempting prospect. Happily a new field awaits exploration, a new method is ready to hand. It recognises the dignity of labour as a prime element in industrial efficiency. It thus affords a practical basis for goodwill, and presents at once an ideal to be cherished and an opportunity to he grasped.—” The Observer.”

FORETELLERS OF THE FUTURE. 1 remember some ’years ago meeting a Christian Scientist in Monte Carlo to whom it had been vouchsafed that the Divine will as to the future was ciphered in stone at the base of the Great Pyramid. She informed me that the World War had been accurately predicted, and advised me to go and see for myself. But I stayed in Monte Carlo. The Great Pyramid superstition is at this moment extremely rife lji London. London, indeed, is quite full of it, and all the Elect, being interpre-