THE ROYAL COMMISSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1452, 29 May 1912, Page 4

THE ROYAL COMMISSIONS.

CRITICAL EMPLOYEES. The Royal Commission oa the cost of living is to hold its first meeting in Wellington on Friday morning. Mr. J. W. Collins, chief clerk in the Labour Department, has been appointed secretary vo the Commission. Mr. Collins Ims for years taken a great interest in the subject, and contributed to a recent luirubsr of tho Journal of the Department of Labour an interesting article on the question, compiled from return furnished by a number of families of tho expenditure they had incurred during tho previous year. At a meeting of the Advisory Board of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, held yesterday, the following resolutions on the subject of tlio Commission on the Cost of Living were passed:— "1. That the Advisory Board, while ready to welcome any practical inquiry into the problem of the alleged greater cost of living, regrets that fixe personnel generally of the present Commission, and the fact that no political economists or statisticians of any standing arc members, compels the board to recognise tho Commission's futility. "2. That as the increased cost of living is a.subject of world-wide interest and importance, and not peculiar to New Zealand, the Employers' Federation considers it advisable that representations should bo made (o the Imperial Government that a Commission consisting of leading British political economists, statisticians, and others of espert knowledge should be set up to discover the basic causes, and that tho New Zealand Govornmeoit be requested to defer tho local inquiry until this information is available."

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