'TAKING THEIR TIME'

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 75, 21 December 1937, Page 7

'TAKING THEIR TIME'

-Prpss Assoclation.)

Visitors Comment on N.Z. Water siders MR H. SHAW SAVILL

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The feeling of uncertainty caused by the Sino-Japanese conflict and the civil war in Spain was having an upsetting | .effect on trade, but nevertheless shipping freights were all up and he was told there was a good deal of cargo offezing said Mr. H. Shaw Savill, who with Mrs. Savill, arrived at Wellington to-day by the li'ner Strat'haird. "The trouble at your end is the labour question," Mr. Savill continued. "In Australia they seemed to be getting the work done satisfactorily ou the waterfront, but when we got to Auckland it was apparcnt they were tafcing their time." Mr. Savill predicted thal New Zealand would not have a Labout Governmeht much longer. ' ' How can a farmer carry on?" he asked. "Th« price of wool would need to go up mucli more to compensate for tke increased caused by the 40-hour week and shortei hours." Mr. Savill said ship-building wai fairly active in Britain, but many weri waiting for the high costs to comt down, and it was no use building shipi unless it was possible to get a guarantee of a certain freight rate for at least five years. Once the present international uncertainty was removed, how ever, business would go ahead. England was fully alive to the world situation and was ready for any emergency now. Mr. Savill said the rearmament programme was prqgressing rapidly. Mr. Savill, who was last in New Zealand eight years ago and' likes the country, intends to remain for three months, He will visit his brother, Mr. F. J. Savill, at Hanmer Springs and will ,spend a good deal of his time fishing.