PUBLIC WORKS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22319, 17 January 1936, Page 8

PUBLIC WORKS

CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM RETENTION BY GOVERNMENT MR. SEMPLE'S EXPERIENCE JUST REWARD FOR THE "TRIER" [RV TEI.EGRAI'H —I'RESSi ASSOCIATION] G HKVMOUTH. Thursday The intention of the Government to adhere to the co-operative system on public works was declared by the Minister of Public Works, Hon. H. Seniple, who visited Runanga yesterday in the course of his tour of the West Coast in company with the Minister of Mines, Hon. P. C. Webb "We are not going to abolish th 9 co-operative systein/ f said Mr. Sompie. "I have been rfround the mulberry bush and I know all about work. I know what a man is capable of doing if ha gets a proper reward. I have never worked for a wage in my life. I have always been on contract or under the co-operative system in order to make more money than the standard rate of pay. "W r e propose to use the co-operative svstem and, whenever possible, to give a standard wage not as a maximum, but as a minimum. Any man who is a trier will welcome it. This system worked in this country for years under Seddon. "We are not going to let anything be put over us by anybody. We understand the economic system and are going to fit in with it. We are not going to cater for any individual group of people, but for New Zealand as a whole."