'WHERE IS THE CONSISTENCY?’
MINISTER’S ATTITUDE CRITICISED FRUITGROWERS’ STATEMENT Wellington, This Day. In a statement to-day the Fruitgrowers’ Federation says: “The failure of the Finance Minister, the Hon. W. Nish, to accept the challenge to publish the findings of a special Government committee on production costs in the fruit industry must be accepted by the public as an indication that the fruitgrowers’ case is unanswerable. In previous statements the Minister sheltered behind stabilisation regulations but how can he reconcile this attitude with the recent pronouncement of the Government that all Army labour used for harvesting this season’s crop must be paid for at 2s 6d an hour, whereas last year the rate was 2s, the present stabilised award rate for adult male orchard workers? How is the grower to meet the additional cost from the present return and why talk of stabilisation when the award rate for orchard workers has been increased by 25 per cent, for Army labour for the coming harvest season? Where is the consistency?”— P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 November 1943, Page 5
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