LOWER WAGES DAIRY LEADER'S VIEWS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 September 1931, Page 3

LOWER WAGES DAIRY LEADER'S VIEWS

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'Post" Special Service.

- "eight shillings a day sufficient" it is Stated EVIDENGE BEFORE ECONOMY - INQUIRY ROTORUA-TAUPO RAILWAY

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WELLINGTON, Monday. Among the witnesses who gave evidence before the inter-party economy committee to-day was Mr William Goodfellow, managing director of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. , It is stated that Mr Goodfellow confined his remarks to questions affecting the general body. of wageearners, and that one of his suggestions was that, as far as practicable, wage-earners should be forced to accept not more than 8/- a day, a proposal that raised considerable comment. ^ In spite of considerable interrogation, Mr Goodfellow is said to haveinsisted that this wage was quite sufficient for the great body of workers. Members of the committee asked how workers could be expected to pay rent on such a wage, but it is stated that no definite answer was given, although Mr Goodfellow is said to have expressed the opinion that the present rates of interest should not he altered. Dealing "vyith the Rotorua-Taupo railway, Mr Goodfellow considered that it should be finished and that its construction offered a chance for the employment of men now out of work. His opinion was that work should be stopped on some of the South Island. lines. Mr Goodfellow was closely examined upon a suggestion he made that there should be considerable cuts in educational expenditure.