RAPID RATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 26

RAPID RATE.

ENACTING LEGISLATION.

TOO QUICK FOR ADJUSTMENTS

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)

DUXEDIX, tliis day.

Mr. J. Sutherland Ross, of the firm of Ross and Glendining, Ltd., speaking at the annual meeting of Perpetual Trustees, Ltd., referred to legislation as it affected the industrial side of life. The industrialist, he said, was seriously concerned at the rapid rate with which recent legislation was put through. One could only regard it as somewhat hasty. One serious difficulty which was concerning them, said Mr. Ross, was the fact that with shorter hours involved in industry, higher rates of wages and restoration to the scale of wages which was operating some years ago, an enormous amount of detail work would be necessary of which the Government could have no conception. It would have been wiser hacl tlie same (late been fixed for all these various alterations in wages and hours, making one job instead of possibly three »jobs in the readjusting of costs. Had-six months been allowed for the making of arrangements it would, have been much better for the community generally.