MASTER AND APPRENTICE BILL.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, October 18. At a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a motion was carried approving of the action of the Council in adopting the report of the Joint Committee of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce and Industrial Association on the Master and Apprentice and Eight-hour Bills. Mr B. E. Sargood, of Messrs Sargood, Son and Ewen, said they all conceded that legislation to restrict sweating and to ameliorate the condition of factory hands was of the highest importance. - There was much in the two Bills named that struck a death blow at some of our industries. ■ He' could endorse, from his own knowledge of the boot trade, that the statement that the effect of the Master and Apprentice Bill would be to throw out of employment 4600 at present engaged, in the trade was correct. All but one memberjoined in condemning the proposal to compulsorily indenture apprentices. .
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3261, 19 October 1897, Page 3
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