INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROPOSALS PREPARED

( From Our Resident Reporter) WELLINGTON. Today. < Finality has now been reached between the various bodies concerned in the proposals of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for standardisation and the creation of standards. and the matter will be laid before the Government during next week. Two different sets ot proposals am embodied in tbe scheme, one the creation ot standard measuring units. St particularly tor electrical goods and power, the other the recognition ot 1 manufacturing standards and malnten- jl ance of a physics laboratory devoted 3 to experimental work to ensure that if these standards are held. One of the problems in the country m at the moment is the fact that them w is no standard meter tor measurement 1 of electrical power, and the approval f of the power boards has been given f to the department's proposals t a I rectify this. Confusion is being f caused by- the fact that electrical ’ goods are coming into the country I from different sources, each with dii. ferent methods of measurement. H though all are generally the satnr' The new move will remedy this. ’ ■ The manufacturing standards, ) which have the approval ot the New Zealand Manufacturers' Association and of the Association of Civil Engi. neers, mainly deal with metal manu. factures. but their scope is largely a - matter for Government decision it, conference with the industries. There are proposals for a contribution toward the cost of the laboratory, from (ha department and from the power boards. The main difficulty wiiif the laboratory is one of accommoda. tion, existing laboratory accommoda. tion being more than filled. On its estimates the department has a small vote for dealing with the question of electrical standards, but more money is needed.