INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT.
"FAR FROM SATISFACTORY." CONSIDERABLE FALLING-OFF IN NEW ZEALAND. A remark made in the course of argument in the Arbitration Court at Wellington on Wednesday drew from His Honour Mr. Justice Frazer a statement to the effect that of late years there had been a very considerable falling off in industrial production in New Zealand. There was an improvement visible now, but the position was far from satisfactory. He was hot putting the blame on any particular section of the community; there had been a general slackness, and it was no use covering up the facts. “We find in other parts of the world,” said His Honour, “that wages are coming down, and there is a tendency to adopt the 48-hour week. We cannot keep our end up as a manufacturing country if we refuse to face the facts.” Mr. C. Renn (for the employees): And this country was practically the forerunner of the eight-hour day and 44-hour week. His Honour: Industries are not giving the same results now.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1922, Page 4
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170INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT. Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1922, Page 4
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