Leader With Exceptional Qualities Wanted

Chronicle (Levin), 3 May 1948, Page 7

Leader With Exceptional Qualities Wanted

AUCKLAND, May 2 "Tliere is 110 use denying tliat tlie.re is somelhing, gravely laeking in New Zealand"'s iudustrial maice up but !. don't think it dbeu the least bit of good blaming only one factiou. The troubl sqems to be a eoniplete Jack of cohesiou between w'orkers and employers. " So said Rear-Adiniral C. B. Prieketl R.N. (retired), Who sailed in the Por Hobart for Ln.gland after spending a vear and four months in tlie Dominion He- was aceoiupanied by his son, Mr. NL R. Priekett, a Wairarapa farmer. "1 have read inueh destructive erit'O ism directed agaiust the workers but I eel sure the fault does not lie entirel. with them. The breach between them nd the employers is now so wide tha tinly a fortliright leader with ex eptional quuWties, will be uble to brin them together and niake them see tha aothing but Iiarm ean come to th eountry if the present deadlock is no broken." Be had been in New Zealand lon;: •nough to have a good look around, said Admiral Priekett, and he was eon vinced that the countrv was liopelessly ■mdcrpopulated, particularly in the South Island. There was evidence oi t'arms going back and vast tracts of i land that could well be developed and made productive, lying idle. "T don't think the Government land policy, particularly in regard to cx-servicemen, is a good one. Tlie nien would taka more interest iu their voca tion if thev were placed on virgin lano. 1 nd allowed to break it in themselves. 'I'he same applies ' to would-be immigrants" said Admiral Pricket.