WAGES RESTORATION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20260, 8 November 1935, Page 8

WAGES RESTORATION

APPEAL TO EMPLOYERS By Telegraph—Press Association PAFAROA, November 7. An appeal to private employers to follow the lead of the Government in granting further restorations of salaries and wages was made by the Minister of Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, in speeches in the Kaipara electorate to-day. “The improvement in the public finances in 1934-1935 enabled the Government to make a well deserved restoration of the greater part of the cut,” said Mr Coates. “During the same period there has been an improvement just as marked in the budgets of a majority of private businesses. Many employers have recognised the sacrifices made by their staffs during the worst of the depression and made complete or partial restoration of the cuts imposed in 1931-32. When the Government was forced to impose cuts in order to reduce costs, similar action was taken by a majority of private concerns. Now that a considerable measure of recovery has taken place and there is a strong prospect of continued improvement, I would urge on private employers the desirability of effecting further restoration in line with the policy of the Government. The evidence of improved conditions is so general that there should be scope for fairly general restoration.”