SWEDISH EFFICIENCY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 4

SWEDISH EFFICIENCY

-Press Association.)

Dominion Builder Impressed WAGE-^AYMENT SYSTEM

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, This Day. After spending a month jn Sweden inspecting industrlal plants^ including saWmills and mass-production joinery factories, the managing-director of the Fletcher Construction Co. believeg that no country in the. world can compare with Sweden for industrial efficiency. Mr. Fletcher, who returned by the Aorangi, said that he has been greatly impressed by the Swedish system of wage payment, consisting of *a minimum wage plus additional payment for each unit produced over a given standard. "The system has resuited in a high wage standard and a considerable increase. in production," he said, "without penalising the. inefficient or inexpert worknian. It has encouraged the diligent and conscientious workman to give of his best and bas encouraged an e^tremely high standard of workmanship." Mr. Fletcher said he had discussed this method. of payment as applied to the building industry with Swedish contractors, and he was convinced that such a system could be applied to suit New Zealand condrtions, Speaking generally, Mr. Fletcher sdid, it would pay the New Zealand Gqvernment to secure details of the operation of Swedish mills for the benefit of New Zealand sawmillers. ,