AN APPRECIATIVE VISITOR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15511, 11 January 1911, Page 10

AN APPRECIATIVE VISITOR.

MR BEEBY’S IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND. ADMINISTRATION' OF THE LABOUR LAWS. -OBJECT LESSONS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES. . United Press Acsociation-wßy Electric Telegraph —Copyright. (Received January 10, 10.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 10. Mr Beoby, Minister of Labour, has returned from his visit to New Zealand. He has formed highly favourable impressions of the dominion. He told an interviewer that what impressed him most was the entire absence of any signs of poverty or distress’ .Even in the larger centres of population there was no evidence of any form of them. Touching industrial legislation, from what he saw he was satisfied that if the New South Wales Government could come up to the New Zealand fitandard during the nest three years a great work would have been accomplished- The dominion was far more advanced industrially than New South •Wajea' The' outstanding feature of the Government policy in administeriug.the ‘ Jaws was broad sympathetic treatment. Every industrial law was treated as an actual reality- Both sides were company! fairly and honestly to observe the laws as passed. He had been favourably struck with the working of the • Government Insurance Office. Foreshadowing reorganisation in the New South Wales Department of Industry and Labour, he declared that he 'did not think he would' improve much on the New Zealand system.