ARBITRATION PROPOSALS

Evening Star, Issue 19711, 11 November 1927, Page 11

ARBITRATION PROPOSALS

FURTHER EVIDENCE

COUNTIES DESIRE EXCLUSION. [Pan United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 10. Before the Labor Bills Committee today Mr Connett, chairman of tho Taranaki County Council, and a member of tho executive of the Counties’ Association, said the counties wished to ho excluded from the operations of the Act, and desired that provision be made in tho Bill specifically excluding them. They felt that in the interests of the farmer and of the community good roads, constructed and maintained as cheaply as possible, were necessary. Tho award, in bis opinion, would increase the cost of muding. Mr Darbyshirc, Wanganui county clerk, said the counties wore practically carrying out Government work, and should be in tho same position as the Government. Mr Rcvoll, secretary of the Freezing Federation, said lie had been asked to condemn the proposals in the Bill in which tho federation could see no good tiling. The federation desired that the Bill bo dropped. He was a small dairy farmer at Kaiapui. and lie thought that the exemption of that industry from Hie Act would ho a disaster, as “ Ralberty’s rules” would prevail, and small factories would feel competition more keenly, and would endeavor to 'make up the 'greater cost of production by crimping wages, in regard to piecework, witness said, of 2,748 accidents in Now Zealand factories last year 1,325 occurred to freezing workers, necessitating on an average II days’ absence.