FACTORY LEGISLATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13876, 29 October 1910, Page 2

FACTORY LEGISLATION.

AMENDING MEASURE CRITICISED. A meeting of the General Committ-*e of the Industrial Association was held yesterday., when Mr R. IJuehanau (president) was in the chair. The -uIM-ommittee appointed to eon--ider tho Fa< tone... .Vet Amendment Act reported a.s follows:— 'That paragraphs 'a.' *b,' *d ; and v." oi' Sub-section I in Section 11. being already provided for under the Factories Act. any further returns are unnecessary lor the protection of the worker, and could not produce a impractical results either for trade or departmental purposes. "That paragraph «<.,' of Subsection 1, Section 11, j b quite impracticable, and that no return made under thi.s section would be reliable or ot any practical use. •That paragraph •(',' 0 f Subsection 1. Station 1!., needs the strongest protest from the Industrial Association, on the "rounds that it trives the unrestricted right to the Labour Department "to call for any particulars they think fit, however inouisitorial. or of factories which might not be approved by Parliament if they had to bo submitted to consideration. •■That Sub-section _ in .Section 11 makes it finite clear that it is the intention of the framers of the Bill that the Inspector could compel the owner or occupier to verify any entries made ie tlie hooks prescribed by regulation, no mutter how inquisitorial tlie demands made. 'Tliat it would be a physical impossibility for any manufacturer to <.>mply with Sub-section 4 of Section IV. ''That, while the object*, of tlie Industrial Association are to encourage local industry, it is very doubtful whether the compulsory branding of goods would have tlie desired effect, but the eoniniit-t-e submit that if the people who are iiiging the Government to briny in the ;) ;il! would be patriotic and insist on ' -ing supplied with New Zealand-made t::..is, retailers would naturally follow '.he line of least resistance by .implying ;lieir customers with the article asked or."' Mr Frostick suggested the addition I tho words "in tho light of past ex-i-ricnce" after the word "doubtful." This was agreed to, and the report, •,s amended, adopted.