EXPERIMENTAL LEGISLATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 216, 5 June 1908, Page 7

EXPERIMENTAL LEGISLATION.

INQUIRIES BY A VISITOR FROM . ENGLAND. (BY TELEGRAPH.— SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT). Auckland, June 4. "Wo are approaching a: period in Great rsritam when labour legislation will undoubtedly .bo introduced, '* said Mr. Ben H Morgan, ■spccial commissioner to the Manu-Association-of Great Britain, in conversation with a "'Herald " . representative last evening. In view .of this conviction it was not surprising to learn that the effect "5' industrial and labour legislation in New -Zealand is being inquired into with con6iderable.antf.rc3t by. Mr. Morgan. \ ■ • . Jfy object," he explained, "is to ascertain as far as possible what effect your industrial legislation has had on tho trado and industries of the Dominion: Of course tho •.conditions'prevailing in New Zealand cannot bo compared with those in Great Britain, and measures which might be Successful here might prove an utter failure in the old country.-; At the s,imc time, we aro anxious to get ourselves posted as far as possiblo in regard, to what happens in the colonies, especially in respect to legislation of what mav bo .termed an experimental character • You are a new country, and you are-thus able to embody in -your.legislation new and untried principles, which wo at Homo dare not touch owing to vested and other interests surrounding every industry and trade."