AS OTHERS SEE US.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10133, 11 January 1911, Page 5

AS OTHERS SEE US.

MR" BEEBY'S OPINION «OF STEW -.■;•-■ '/ 'ZEALAND. ; (Receded Last Night, 10.4(0 o'clock.)'■ : Jaunaaiy M>.. ; The Hj»u.. Mr OBeeby, Maaaister far '. Education said ILabour,., whs» has re- i turned from a visit to New Zealand,; lias formed a highly fayourayeiiapr.es-■' sion of tin© IDtemnriion. He told an interviewer that that which MaapiKsseed, him most was .the entire afasence of ] poverty or idiistims. .Even in the larger centres of population there was no evidence of any form of these. » Touching on industrial legislation, ,Mr Beeby, saad.ttet.from .what. be. saw, he was satisfies!! that if-the Ncw ; South Wales government can. - come up to the New !Zeatend standard during the next three years, a great work, will have beea acoaaaaplished. The dominion-was ). far more advanced ih- , dustrialjy 11 hanr Ss*nt hWales v/Ebx* 56ntstandin^' , foa^iire'^(tf:Vi , thei'- > Government's policy in administering laws was tlie broad and sympathetic treatment of every industrial law. They treated as an actual reality and both sides were compelled fairly and | honestly to observe the laws as passed. | ;Mr Beeby was favourably, struck J with the working of the Government i Insurance, office. . ~-/

In foreshadowing a reorganisation of the New South-Wales Department of Industry and Labour, lie declared that he did not think "lie could improve much on the New Zealand system. ' •