TRANSPORT LICENSING SYSTEM DEBATED
Minister Outlines Government s Intentions Factory law and the Government’s proposed alterations provided the only theme for discussion in the House of . R epie sentatives yesterday afternoon. Keen consideration was give the Factories Amendment Bill in the committee stage, and Opposition made a determined effort to secure greater elast.c.tv in the granting of periodical increments to factoiy woikers The Minister of Labour, Hon. H. T. Armstrong, contender that the principle of paying increments on the existing wage wa. a sound one “If Christian people controlled industry Mu Armstrong observed, “there would be no need of any law at all. The Bill passed through the committee stage. In the evening the Transport Licensing Amendment Bil. monopolised attention. There were full galleries, and the hist four speeches were broadcast. The Minister of Transport. Hon R. Semple, in addition to explaining the Bill and indicating what the Government intended to do by Order-in-Council legal in* the transport of goods and the payment of wages, gave an informative historical review of the development of transpol t in New Zealand since the days of the trudging pioneels. The House rose at 10.15 p.m.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 12
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