BOOT MANUFACTURE

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13357, 22 December 1906, Page 5

BOOT MANUFACTURE

DEPUTATION TO A MINISTER. :

Per Press Ass&eiation.

Auckland, 'December 21. r 'A boot manufacturers' --deputation informed th^Hdn?iffr MilUrVtftatoW" mg to - tne^scarcity ' of- girl " liab^ur a<hd ' the exceptional activity- -pf^tr-hd^ thefts" posi-tdon was so acute that ctfta .larg^i firm had taken its-traveller- -~- off the? road, being 'alraM to take«m<jre oid'ers.. They asked for/, assisted,* immigration for girl labour. The present prop'ortlbn "\\ v aC 2000:males?t?o.-^00 %,^fe- . male Workers. Mr^ Millar congratulatqd the tra<le oh. 1 its prosperity, and said if they could stipply evidence of. orders being- .refu^4*'th^Q > U!ghrtfe,e;.sca«-., city of labour, and if, as, he understood, the unionis '- raised' no object t(:on, he would instruct, his inspectorsto rdporHi with a; view- to recoiam'erid^ tog &ssis.b4:T limm^raMon •as proposed. Stipulation^'. w«re nec€ssa"rji 6t>h--ersMise th-eOovemmient' might be dragged into a general system of assistied immigration. Thatj was not now dcv sirable. „ „ •« ■% , « '. ' ' To another depiitawbn he said vUie beloved. 'the Masters, and A^peatio^ Act, lS6Sj,;rencleHug apprcixticeeha^s invalid after the ago of 19, was 1 still operative. He could aot interfere with awards of the Arbitration Court/ but if the workers showed that interpretations were constantly given ' against them, contu.'ary to the spirit af' the Act, he would consider an amend-, ment that would render nxisinterpije- ' taftion impossible.