Standard Wages

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 7

Standard Wages

-Presa Association.)

HEARING concludes Prices and Labour Costs Relationship prof. .tockeft's vlew

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•inCKBAM), Last Night. jflfo Oburt has corifeivfcfedj Ite iearing of ihe fease to determinej ktandard wages for unskilled, semi-j pMQed Snd skilled labfeur. Ffrifetically ninrnini was sperit in th$ jcrosB-fexiaririatiett of Professoi A. & koeke** drian ti ih* faculty of e66ribnricB| Wt OSntfefTyoryj Collegfe, by Mr. ^ jEobectf^ oi ^ebalf of ihe Fedferation ofi jLabour. To-inOrt6W idiff Court Willj Shear sffiMnisSioria ffom ib^ifeseritafivesj bf ihe farSesrf \ , , • In an*Wec t* iti. Boberfs, Prfeffessori ICocker sUifl wages iatisfc; tre clo&ly asso4 ei&ted ynili fhft prrfees of fhfe gofeds piayr psoducecfc. He' fcould not say whai ftoae .#agb« should "bo. j Ifijj BokbOrtatStipp6sin| Toolfey Stseetj. L^aiwAifarfg did noi buy anyfMng frfeiri.' BfeW 2teu§and fd.t e& montfis, do yotf fetifaif mu wcrilflgo withoint ariy'tbing' knd'flfeafvftf j BrofeBfcor Tocker: No. ^ , la it not a faoi $hrif your theoiies trfej: b uupport pf £wo ittctiona of Jtitft pfeoflfe,] jnioneyed landholders and fsfriifer landi faamibloTBt . That is juot m faet. My thfeorieS arej kot in aupport oi #nyono. But slidn/fc you advise the previous, {fifevernmeut. .tipari, &ew Moaland fradaj frrnd go lo Loddon it adflse Mr. Forbesft II gavd b>Tw, soin.6 addlce. jfeBf and iooH wlere h# IandecL .. I wa# ndt iri.teresfed in. any politifeal Sarty, hui I wa* interested in. the restortkra ef wcovaxy in: 2few Zealand. Yon issbtiatc ftk yn& Hfcl iS66v#^ ifi jyoS Hkb^ ifr. Eoborlsi. tTh®. xecovery was due .tbj bh# fertility Of tbe land and tbe indu^j ' fcry of jbe pboplb. yft bave notliing tb t.hinV tHa pfofessora for. * IIt.- Eobertst Hayb you any opiiiibn, bo expybss ab ib wtfetber ■frSgbM flbbiQdj ba inbfBSSSd toi iSdtibSd I On tbe evidence as I inow it, I can •ee no evidence bhat would justify eitber, an inerease or a dbcrease. ligj ^fllticS Q'Regan: Yon say notbjpg m.yom jreporfc. abont farming^ I anggest ibat wa need more farmers, . Professor. .Tocberi I am inclinbd td agrea .tbat tbe propoxfcibn of tbe pebpl#" wbo cxe farming bas dbcf eased ebnsid-^ erably in tbe iait 30 yeaiB. t>n# oi tbe. firtfc metbb®^ . Of --bbfibbting' iiitbat ev2. wonld bb a zeduetion in tbe price of I $8n$e tbe pribe bf ifind baa;. rednoed itself in tbe paafc: feW yeara, Dnring tiie depression everyfcbingJ Itrages, pftienn ftxacl intbr«sfc> caibe dbtt%' ibut tbe. yalila of land xemainfid lbvel.i h many instaneei tbere was -nb nebd' to sbow a xbdttoed land yalub, aincb tbdj land, bad at tbat. time' no sale .vblub., ®ie yalnes iit tbe Year Bbofi wero merdy »• basia for; .taxation. Tbb .vilnations in tbe Yean Booi bavft not been altered fof jaany yeari-. His Honjonrs If jnsticO; wbrb dbbe and tbe Year: Bobk- toid itbe truth, .tbe yalne of land sbonld be redneed. j Jlbis coneluded tbe Oyideneso bnd fboj ; Comrt. adjonrned, / ' 'v-v* NSSt-