DOMINION’S WORKERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 47, 24 January 1936, Page 9

DOMINION’S WORKERS.

EQUAL TO WORLD’S BEST. VIEW OF SIR CECIL LEYS. SIDNEY, Jan. 23. A tribute to Australian and New Zealand workers was paid by Sir Cecil Leys, managing "director of New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd., Auckland and Christchurch, who is returning from a tour'abroad. He said that Australia and New Zealand equalled in production and manufacturing methods the many overseas countries he had visited, "and the workmen, when they became used to a job, had no superiors in Europe, England or America. Sir Cecil added that Japanese standards of living were improving. Manufacturing was done so cheaply that tariffs could not bridge the difference between Japan and western countries. Japanese manufacturers were content to turn over their output for the smallest margin.

However, as the Japanese became educated to better standards and realised the propriety and necessity of reasonable profit, and as the general living standard tended more toward western levels, much of Japan’s competitive menace would disappear.