THE MINISTER OF LABOUR

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 281, 1 June 1907, Page 3

THE MINISTER OF LABOUR

THE PRICE OF^JOMMODITIES. WAGES BOARD. IFBB FIUUS ABBOOIATION.] Dunedin, June 1. Mr Millar told a Star representative, that he thought a Board of Commerce should be set up to report wherever it became apparent that undue prices were being charged for the commodities of life. They should advise the Government as to what step ought to be taken. The report to be presented to Parliament before being acted on. That was the course being pursued in America, where Trusts had been created, and it appeared to him a great deal better that machinery should be provided to deal with such matters before they did become an established* fact in this colony. The Arbitration Act would be amended by the creation of provincial boards of wages, cnsisting practically of experts in equal numbers on both sides ,to deal immediately with disputes in any particular trade. The ! awards to be in existence not less than two, nor more than three, years. Appeals to the Arbitration Court would be allowed in certain cases. The Wages Board would be somewhat similar to those in Australia.