LABOUR AGENCIES.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13753, 19 June 1913, Page 6

LABOUR AGENCIES.

DEPUTATION TO PREMIER.

[United Press Association.]

Dunedin, June 18. Representatives of private labour agencies waited on the Hon. W. F. Massey to-day, i)ointing out their difficulties with regard to the new regulations, especially in the direction of the scale of fees charged to employers. If they were compelled to charge 10s 6d oinployers would simply not come, and agents would be unable to make a living.

Mr Massey replied that strong paraigraphs' bad - in the anntial labour ireport rfco - th-e -that in "many registry offices workers alono were charged tlio prescribed fees, while the employers -wMi&«eith<»r THjt charged at all, or charged very little. It had been i:e*t impossible that that system could go on. lie wua quite willing to havo tlie whole scale revised on the understanding that ••licensed agents would depend on th© fees being equitably divided between employer and employee. Mr. McDonald, aft agent, suggested that, if employers and employees were charged similarly things would work well. . ' ■• v '.:Mr. ■.•MaswoV''; suggested- making the fees ,dopendent on employees .remaining a certain time, with employers.