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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 4

With free exchange of labour prevented by awards and conditions ludicrously inapplicable to rural surroundings the farmer would have had no security that any estimate of cos' would lie a sound one. The exemption in regard to dairy factories is equally justifiable. They are but the complement of the farm, and consequently should he as untrammelled in thei labour arrangoinents. AN’i l l l work in tlio.-e factories becoming more specialised every year there is little fear o

any hardship accruing to employees because they arc not working undo the award of the Court. The liberty on the part of both employers and employees is likely to lead to increased remuneration for those who are able to justify it. The Hill appears to hi

an honest attempt to retain all that is useful ill the arbitration system, and to remove some of its had features. Arbitration, of course, can never prove a panacea for every industrial ill. A< the same time, if the amended Act i> act epted ill a spirit of reasonableness and co-operation by all, there is reason to hope that the dawn of a brighter industrial day is breaking in Xew Zealand.—" Taranaki Herald.”