IMPRESSIONS.
Recording his' impressions, of Ne-w Zealand, which he recently visited, Dr F. Schone, of Germany, warns the worker.* of the Dominion against pur-
suing. personal advantages to the poisnt of endangering the future of the country, and also says: "To me personaflly it alwayj gives a somewhat painful sensation to 'hoar people openly admit that thoy are lighting forthe highest possible pay for the least possible work; it borders on claiming a higher pay than one's work is worth, which would mean to claim a (premium on either laziness or mediocrity. On the other hand, it proves that these people look upon their work as a thing they bate, and not as something they have dearer at heart than, anything else. Doing the work cQieerfiuMy necessarily improves its quality, whereas labour that workte hy mere compulsion, that _ ohjects against, immigration from fear of (competition,-and that concentrates all its energies on fighting for advantages out cf proportion to the industrial and economical state of things at large, is bound to check the energy and spirit of commercial and industrial enterprise."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10601, 6 April 1912, Page 4
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180IMPRESSIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10601, 6 April 1912, Page 4
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