EMPLOYERS’ FEDERATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8909, 31 August 1907, Page 2

EMPLOYERS’ FEDERATION.

Interview with Minister-

Per Press Association. AYELLina-roN, August 30.

Mr Millar, in reply to the employers’ deputation referring to the new Factories Act, said that where six women and boys were employed all day in a vitiated atmosphere it was necessary to have a separate place for meals. If this number was too small he would enquire whether it was necessary to extend it. Referring to the clause dealing with holidays, Mr Millar said what tho deputation wished was that the whole colony except the four centres should be exempt from the Saturday half-holiday for a factory which was purely a factory aud not a shop. He was not going to alter the law in this respect; Ho was willing, whore a shop and factory were combined, to add one or two thousand to tho proposed quota of population so long as they did not make this principle general in its application.