DAY FACTORY LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1918, Page 2

DAY FACTORY LABOR.

To the Editor. Sir,—ln the report of the meeting of the Efficiency Board held at Stratford on Monday re the discussion of scarcity of labour in connection with' dairy factor' ies, it is stated that Mr Dingle said that a small factory advertised for a manager and there were fifty applicants. This would lead the public to believe there were'plenty of managers. The real position is that nearly all the first assistants in Taranaki applied for the position. Now, I take it that the Pembroke Dairy Company was the factory alluded to, as the directors of that company appointed a manager 011 the 10th May. Instead of nearly all ■ the first assistants in Taranaki applying for the position, there were forty-six applications, all of them holding the position of manager at present, six'applicants only being first assistants, three of them from Taranaki. In October, 1917, another factory advertised for a manager and had thirty-four applicants, all holding a managership. Mr Dingle might have made himself conversant with facts before making the above statement, which puts the Efficiency Board in a false position. I am not in a position to know whether labour for dairy factory work is plentiful or not. One .party informed mo that he , had seventeen years of experience as a manager and had not succeeded in getting n - handy to school and he to town for the better, educating .of his family.—l am, etc., TRUTH. Stratford, May 1 \ 1918.