Dominion Handicapped By Poor Pay Policy
WELLINGTON, June 10. Concerned over the handicap to the Dominion 's development through the discouraging policy of inadequately paying for the services of highly train-, ed scientists and other experts, the council of the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation decided to raise again the question with the Government. A report supplied by the federation states that the Canterbury Manufacturers Associatiion submitted a request that the federation should press for a thorough inves.tigation into the inequalities of salaries paid to scientiflc workers in New Zealand in relation to many other groups. ' It was explained by the federation 8ecretary, Mr D. I. MacDonald, that when the matter was last discussed with the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Nordmeyer, it was ascertained that he and the Minister of Educatioin, Mr MeCombs, were quite sympathetic. ,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19490611.2.10.4
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1949, Page 3
Word Count
137Dominion Handicapped By Poor Pay Policy Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1949, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in