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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 9

tSM 1S * nnounce d that the New South " aies Government, if it is spared, will propose to wipe out the Board of r» « ln the next State Parliament, .ays the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "Age." The board has been wircatened many times, but remains Rigorously alive and literally kicking. «s continued existence is another proof « truth being stranger than fiction. ■Nobody wants it. Employers complain ,-fi causes annoying interferance them. Employees grumble at its decisions. The public protests that wnere it has any effect it is in the airection of making prices vibrate uncertainly. If it raises wages it thereby automatically reduces the purchasing power of the wages, and conversely it affects both together if it lowers wages. f« decisions are more or less useless »i many cases because so many employees are paid Tegardless of fixed wales. Its findings upon the cost of Jivmg are only jokes in the wrong Place. Yet here it is sitting solemnly again to look into "the cost of shelter,' and professing to be concerned Because the cost of living is reported uy some figure fiend to have risen by one Penny in £4 since last December. It troves, indeed, the kind of thing that Frankenstein might have created while on a night out.