LABOUR AND ITS REWARDS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 15, 23 February 1914, Page 6

LABOUR AND ITS REWARDS.

To the Editor of THE SUN. _ jgir,—Not ; .i*iany years ago. Sir John FiiuUay, while Attorney-General m Sir Joseph Ward's Ministry,_ wrote an krticle or artieles demonstraitihg the imbecility of those who were hoping for ever-increasing wages, and establishing categorically the futility of such expectations. If" I'i-ememb'er 1 aright, he' showed that a ris& of one shilling a day all round would amount to a. very large, sum; sufficient, indeed, to bring about the ruin of the majority of industrial enterprises. I regret that I am unable to verify my remeimbi'aiic§&; • iflad quote a few passages in proof. I think that at the present time a few extracts, it available, would prove of grea,t interest. —I am, etc., STILL HOPING.