The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1894. THE APPRENTICE BILL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 41, 14 August 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1894. THE APPRENTICE BILL.

♦ Apropos of the second Masters and Apprentices Bill, presented to the House by the Minister for Labor, the Wairarapa Daily Times says, after referring to the clause which deducts twelve per cent, from the wages of apprentices, " It is part and parcel of the Ministerial policy to collar all the money in the Colony, and under the Masters and Apprentices Act, they will be able to make a nice little haul. Of course, there is all the machinery which is introduced by the State into all its measures ; an array of inspectors in the foreground, Magistrates in the baakground, and fines and penalties on all sides. Where will all the money come from to work the new Act? It will come out of tho wage fund, and there will be less money for workers and more for inspectors, lawyers, court ofticials, and the State Bank. The wage fund, when these have had their turn at it, will sink a foot, and the average rate of wages will have to come down with a run. Masters won't run their businesses at a loss, and they cannot do so for very lony, even if they felt an amiable weakness in that direction. Of course the Minister of Labour is supposed to be I shooting at masters, but lie is really hitting the young lads who are to be made apprentices by their will, or against their will as the case uiiy ue, or else turned adrift."