REDUCTION IN WAGES
NO BENEFIT TO PRODUCTION. REQUEST BY FARMERS. _ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Did the recent reductions 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 view was that there had been little, df any material benefit to production. The following remit was passed and forwarded to the Dominion Conference for discussion: — "That us no material reduction in the cost of production on farms has resulted from the reduction in the award wages and civil service salaries careful Investigation should be Instituted (o ascertain where it is that tiie ecnomics are being held up.’’ In an address Dr. I. \Y. Weston, farm economist at Lincoln College, emphasised the point Hint It was the fixed debit and not wages which was iho principal charge in the costing system.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18642, 21 May 1932, Page 8
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