“In your haste in rushing your legislation .through you have killed some industries,” said Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., when a deputation from South Canterbury dairying interests was placing.laboux- problems in dairy factories before the Minister of Agriculture. Mr Buirnett instanced private boardinghouse-keeping. “I am not in a position to reply to that,” was the Minister’s reply. “I do not know the position, but I cannot subscribe to the statement that any industry has been killed through the effect of hurried legislation.” He added that the conditions of labour in many cases had been greatly in need of improvement, particularly where there was “sweating.” Mr Burnett asserted that there had been no sweating of laboux- in private boardinghouses.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 February 1937, Page 6
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