PROFIT SHARING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 17 May 1907, Page 2

PROFIT SHARING.

Per Prcs3 Association. Wellington, May l(i. Speaking at ibo Trades Hall to-night, after a lecture on Socialism, Mr E. 'Pro • gear, Secretary for Labor, said (lie Arbitration Ant must not be abandoned ht:t improved. Why not begin nmeiulio? by fjiying the Court power to introduce a profit sharing element. I'll! Act wns flood, though the aaministrnlion was, bad, njd they must stand bj till it be-1 came unworkable, and then get some-1 thing better.

LA7EST TELEGRAMS.

prairie valuations. PKRIOOS CHAUGIi AGAINST GOVEKNMENT DEPARTMENT. lVr l'rc-ii Association. Auckland, May 16. At to-day's sittiugs, Mr G. J. Garland moved : "That this brunch of the New Zealand Farmer.-,' Union protests against 'lie present system of laud Taluution, inasmuch as it aj plies to recuirent unirnjnoved yalues, und tliat the resolution lie sent to the Colonial Conference, and that Caplain Bell be also requested to bring the matter before tlio County Council Conference." Captain Bell made a very serious charge against the Government. Ho said lie hud refernd to the subject at a recent meeting, and at (he conclusion, a man who acted as Government Valuer told him that all he had said was correct. This valuer stated that his figures had been altered in several instances after they were sent to Wellington. The valuations of improvements had been cut down to the extent of ap average of 60 per cent., and the sums added on to unimproved values, Tlio man. who was a practical farmer, stated that lie intended to resign his 1 position as a protest. Tlio motion was carried.