WAGE REDUCTIONS
WHO SECURED BENEFITS? A FARMERS’ DISCUSSION. [ Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. Did the recent in workers’ wages help the farmer? was a question pointedly asked at the annual conference of the North Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The general viev. was that there had been little, if any, material benefit to production, and the following remit wag passed and forwarded to the Dominion Conference for discussion: “That as no material reduction in the cost of production on the farms has resulted from the reudetion in award wages and Civil Service salaries, a careful investigation should bo instituted to ascertain whore it is that the economies are being held up.” In an address, Dr. I. w. Weston, economist at Lincoln College, emphasised the point tha tit was the fixed debt. and not wages which was the principal charge in the costing system.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 6
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147WAGE REDUCTIONS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 6
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