PROPOSAL FOR GIFT OF ONE DAY’S PAY TO HELP BRITAIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1947, Page 4

PROPOSAL FOR GIFT OF ONE DAY’S PAY TO HELP BRITAIN

(P.A.) INVERCARGIL, Aug. 29. That to ensure more free food for Britain the opportunity should be given every worker to give one day’s wages towards a fund, was a motion passed at a meeting of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber decided that the suggestion should be made to the Associated Chambers of Commerce to sponsor a move throughout New Zealand. The chairman (Mr R. F. Jones) said the chamber had been asked to give its support to the “Miss New Zealand” contest, but after a discussion on the advantages of the contest it was agreed that more could be gained by asking for a donation of one day’s wages by all workers.

More production and fewer stoppages were the main considerations at the present time, said the chairman.

Mr R. Kennedy: It is time a sixday week was worked. There are too many delays in the handling of stock at the freezing works _ and on the wharves.

According to a message from Wellington Mr F. P. Walsh, chairman of the “Aid to Britain” committee, said today that the committee had decided yesterday to ask for the appointment of two co-opted members representing the Maori race and former servicemen’s organisations respectively and a number of Government executives as advisory members. It was also decided that the committee should be known as “the Emergency Production and Trade Committee,” to distinguish it from the “Food for Britain” organisation. ToKacco-grbwers and farmers of the Nelson district who had attended the annual meeting of the New Zealand Tobacco-Growers’ Federation at Motueka. today pledged* themselves to increase the production of leaf to a position by the reduction of imports for New Zealand’s needs. Mr L. J. Schmitt, chairman of the Tobacco Board, asked for an increase of 400 acres this year and a further 1000 next year. The federation’s president (Mr F. A. Hamilton) said a committee had been set up with the aim of putting an additional 1000 acres of new land into tobacco production.