STABILISATION AIM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 28 November 1941, Page 2

STABILISATION AIM

WAGES AND PRICES MINISTER’S EXPLANATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Although at the annual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation last week he had referred to the desirability of stabilising wages and prices and obviating the necessity of cases being continually fought out in the Arbitration Court, there was no suggestion from him that the court should be abolished, said the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, yesterday. It would appear, he said, that that interpretation had been placed on a report of his remarks in some quarters. “I made it clear,” continued the Minister, ‘'that there were many anomalies and that there were many cases of outstanding grievances that could not wait indefinitely.” The court obviously would be engaged in trying to straighten out, as far as possible, any such grievances or anomalies and was continually meeting such cases, but on the broader principle ol' stabilisation, the Government ’s desire through the stabilisation council was, as far as practicable, to stabilise wages and prices. That, however, would in no way do away with the necessity of the court investigating and dealing with outstanding grievances.