IRON WORKERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 August 1924, Page 9

IRON WORKERS.

NEW AWARD SOUGHT. TO COVER WHOLE DOMINION. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 7. The hearing of the anplication for a Dominion award for the following branches of the engineering industry was continued by fche Arbitration Court to-day: Namely, engineering, moulding, boiler-making and work done by metalworkers’ assistants. in support or the application L 1 the ironmasters. Mr Archibald Charles Mitchell, superintending engineer foils i veil and Co., said he had a knowledge of the engineering industry. He bail prepared tables and graphs showing cost of making certain machinery in different years. ' The figures -showed a falling off between 1912 and 1922. hut last year showed an improvement-. .The plant to-day was much more up to date than in 1911, hut with even improved plant tne time taken hi manufacture was longer. The machines he specially referred to were the freezing machines which his company had to sell in competition with imported machines. The company had adopted what might be described as an unbusinesslike principle with respect to these machines of selling them to-day at less than the cost of production. They had done this in order to retain a poition of their trade in order to keep going this part of their output and compete with imported articles.