AFTER THE WAR.
MANUFACTURING IN NEW ZEALAND. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. Dealing with aftcr-thc-war problems, the annual report of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation states that so far as New Zealand is concerned, it is certain that unless by some means it is found possible to increase the efficiency of the workers in the Dominion, it, will lie found quite impossible to maintain any position as a manufacturing country. It is quite evident that under the present system of increasing wages, shortening hours and placing further restrictions upon trades, industries must cease if their expansion 01even their continuance in many cases is to he secured. Just what should be done it is difficult to say. This might well bo made the principal subject of a discussion at the annual meeting. It is inevitable that, notwithstanding favourable conditions-, work in New Zealand, under the difficult problems regarding the industrial situation, will have to bo dealt with by the Federation in the near future.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10115, 24 October 1917, Page 5
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164AFTER THE WAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10115, 24 October 1917, Page 5
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