NEW ZEALAND AS A PATTERN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 12 January 1911, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND AS A PATTERN

LEGISLATION FOR AUSTRALIA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, January 11. Mr. Beeby states that one of the first Acts he will introduce into Parliament will be State insurance, which is an undoubted success in New Zealand.

EDUC'ATION SYSTEMS COMPARED. Sydney, January 11. Mr. Beeby declared that although New Zealand spends more per head than New South Wales on education he doubts if the results are so good. He noticed a want of uniformity of methods in different districts, also a tendency to stagnation, as there was no wide interchange of teachers or ideas.

Regarding industrial legislation, he j said it was clear that N"w Zealand was l reaching the limit of industrial regulation. Employees realise that there is not much hope of further increase of j •wages. This makes the position in-1 tensely interesting. The further progress of New Zealand depends upon all the energies of the Government being devoted to the increase of primary production. Proposed legislation shows that the Government realises this fact. State enterprise has done much to break rings and combinations which naturally inflated prices. It was evident, however, that there was still a shipping ring, which kept up freights.

He was struck by the fact that legislation for the protection of the weaker sections of the community in the Dominion was far in advance of that in the Australian States.