MINISTER OF LANDS.
CRITICISING LATE LEGISLATION. SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE. By Telegraph-—Press Association. Wellington, last night. In the course of a speech at the opening of the bridge at Rikiorangi to-day, the Hon. Mr Duncan, Minister for Lands, referring to conciliation and arbitration, said there was just one thing he had to complain of, that was the tendency to try and bring all workers down to a dead level. A minimum wage- was all very well, but workmen and women should be paid according to their ability. There should bo differentiation as to tbe payment superior workers received.
He admitted that Government had been a little dilatory in the matter of South African trade. Steamers should have been run to the Cape two years and a half ago. Ho was of opinion that the frozen meat companies should combine to further their own interests, and was glad to see the Fanners’ Union taking up the question of markets, instead of leaving jegitimato profits to middlemen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 421, 21 May 1902, Page 3
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