LABOUR AND PRODUCTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1713, 2 January 1920, Page 5

LABOUR AND PRODUCTION.

WATER POWER AS AN ACCESSORY

By Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, LONDON, Dec. 31.

Mr Lloyd George visited the water-power works at Conway Valley. In a speech he said ho regretted that Britain was a most baokward nation in tho use of waterpower. Germany had long used waterpower for agricultural and other purposes.*; He pointed to the Australian poportunities, and said the secret of the future lay in tho adequato exploitation of groat natural resources. Cheaper power would revolutionise industry. Labour was demanding shorter hours, and therefore something must be done to increase production. There were willing hands in the clouds,, and they did not demand an eight-hour day. It was true that the clouds sometimes struck, but .tho dams .were prepared as" strikebreakers, with groat reservoirs of stored water to be used while the clouds were striking. ■.