JUNGLE IS BETTER PLACE THAN CAGE IN ZOO

Chronicle (Levin), 23 March 1949, Page 5

JUNGLE IS BETTER PLACE THAN CAGE IN ZOO

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Wages Application Hearing Continues ,

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WELLINGTON, Mareb 23. "The1 jungle is a bevtgf biace' than a cUge ifi the zoo/' said Ptofessor A. Rl. Tocker, PfofessoT df EccJnomics arld Dean df tlie FacUlty df Commerce at the CaiiterbUfy Uiii-' versi&y oo^l-ege, contin-uing his SVidence today ifi the StafidUfd wages anplicatiofi hearing befote tfid lArbitration Court. "If yoti.want td uMia up a virlle cdmmufilty,1 hd told Mr, K. McL. Baxter, fdr thf Federation of Labour, "the jungle is the better place. At.pr.esefir you are trjring to put people ifi the £00,' Mr. Baxter: Do you think that wages should or should not be IfiProfessor Tocker: I thifik that in view of the policy of -stabilisatiofi, evei'y effort shoU-d be made td pre-5-veflt the avera-ge level Of wages beifig ificreased'. Within that average there may be anomalies that might ibe adjusted, but I kfiow very little about those anomalies. I have 1 been' trying to deal with broad general questions. 1 Mr. Justice Tyndall: If any groUp received an increase, the average could not stay the same ufiies-s some other group got a reduction? Professor Tocker said he thought that ih some instances there Was room for a reduction. In Christchurch, because a number of tramwaymen were held -back for a quarter of an hour one night -after the normal last tram time they were .entitled, he said, to two hours' overtime at .double rates. The hearihg is proceeding.