FEDERATION OF LABOUR WANTS WOMAN ON PRICE TRIBUNAL

Grey River Argus, 18 February 1949, Page 5

FEDERATION OF LABOUR WANTS WOMAN ON PRICE TRIBUNAL

P.A. WELLINGTON, Feb. 17 The appointment of a woman with business and accountancy qualifications to the Price Tribunal is to be requested of the Government by the New Zealand Federation of Labour. A decision to make this recommendation was reached at the meeting of the National Council of the Federation to-day. Trades Councils will be asked to submit names of qualified persons for the appointment, INQUIRY ON “HOLMES’S LETTER” TO BE SOUGHT An inquiry by the Government into the “Holmes’s Letter” incident is to be requested by the Federation of Labour, the National Council of the Federation, having decided to ask for an inquiry “into the entire circumstances surrounding Holmes’s case, with a view to seeing justices meted out, and a report being made to the annual conference if necessary.”