N.Z. SECONDARY INDUSTRY
“HIGHLY EDUCATED AND SKILLED WORKERS”
"There is no doubt in mv mind that New Zealand industry can be as efficient and as economic as any industry in* the world.” said Mr W. Rosenberg, a lecturer in economics at Canterbury University College, speaking to the Christchurch Accountant Students’ Society last evennig. Mr Rosenberg, who was speaking on “Economic Trends in New Zealand,” said that in fact New Zealand industry had a better chance in some respects. . New Zealanders, he said, would never do anything by hand if it could be done by machines. Generally speaking the degree of mechanisation was tremendously high—even higher than in the United Kingdom or in the United States of America. In the second nlace New Zealand had a highly educated and skilled working population. That was the greatest asset, for it had people who could use machinery. The production of the individual worker compared with the United States and other countries, but wages were low in comparison with the United States.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26517, 4 September 1951, Page 8
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