WORKING HOURS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 405, 12 April 1937, Page 6

WORKING HOURS.

EFFECT OF REDUCTION. I Government Investigating ! Complaints. j | Press Association—Copyright. I Wanganui, April 11, ' “Conflicting reports have been rfli ; eeivetl regarding the effect of the 40huur .week on output,” said Hon. D. G. Sullivan. “Some industries Jia.ve definitely benefited from the. closing down of. work on Saturday mornings and others haye found the output to have been reduced in the same proportion as the reduction in the numbqr of working hours.’’ The Minister also stalled that the Government was maintaining a close watch on prices and was inyestigabjng all complaints made. Price/5 of goods overseas had shown a definite upward (trend during the past year, and. as Ne\-' Zealand imported goods to the value of £44,000,000 in 1936 .it would be realised that even a Slight rise would have an appreciable effect on commodities within the Do- i minion. “Altogether the great body of peopl. in the Dominion are now in a inuch bettor position than they were previously,’’ the Minister added, “and although prices have risen to some extent they have not. ‘advanced ‘as much as a > ages have.’’