INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY

Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 14

INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY

MANUFACTURERS SUPPORT BILL PASSING OF " LAWS OF THE JUNGLE " [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 1. Mr Henry, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, declared to-day that he was definitely and wholeheartedly in support of the Industrial Efficiency Bill. The general principles were endorsed by the Manufacturers’ Council last week, and a number of amendments had been proposed for the purpose of making the machinery safer and more effective. Mr J. T. Spears, vice-president, stated that he also supported the measure, which was designed to evolve economic order out of economic chaos. He was unable to withhold sympathy with the Minister in the earnestness with which the problem was being tackled. Mr Ambler, president-elect of the Auckland Association, said the Bill would undoubtedly be objected to by business men who still believed in the old laws of the jungle, but he strongly recommended the manufacturers to approach the scheme in a spirit of cooperation. The Wellington Association, following two days’ meetings, finally voted in favour of giving wholehearted support to the Bill, subject to one amendment, which, though important, did not in any way conflict with the declared policy of the Government. _ Mr Matheson, president of the Wellington Association, said to-day that he saw in the Bill a wonderful opportunity for progress in the manufacturing industry, and recommended his fellow-industrial-ists to give it support.