NEW ZEALAND WORKERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10522, 25 February 1920, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND WORKERS

AN .AMERICAN’S TESTIMONY, Mr Adolph Hirsch, the principal in a’ big American manufacturing concern, is touring New Zealand for the purpose of purchasing pelts. Mr Hirsch has an extensive business connection with meat freezing and packing works in all parts of the world. He is particularly interested in the output of factories in South America, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In conversation with an officer of the Wellington Freezers' Union, he recently stated that in his experience the work done by the men in the New Zealand Freezing works would bear favourable comparison with the work done by any workers in any other part of the world. The officer remarked that this was a great compliment to the New Zealand slaughtermen. “That's not a compliment,’' replied the American, '‘that’s the truth.'' Although Mr Hirsch has never previously been in Now Zealand, says “The Journal of the New Zealand Freezing Workers and Related Trades Association of Workers/' ho had the whole of the Now Zealand freezing works and their various brands on the tip of his tongue. In connection with the above statement as to the quality of the work turned out, Mr Hirsch specially mentioned the output of pelts from the Mastorton and the Whakatu works, although, generally speaking, he admitted that all the work was satisfactory by comparison with othei countries.