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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE REPORT OF GOVERNMENT DELEGATES ON THE THIRTIETH SESSION, GENEVA, JUNE-JULY, 1947

To be laid on the Table of the House of Representatives

REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT DELEGATION TO THE THIRTIETH SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE The Conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 19th June, 1947, until 11th July, 1947, both dates inclusive. Forty-eight States were represented, the total number of delegates present being 173 (90 Government, 41 employers, and 4-2 workers), while there were, in addition, 309 Advisers (144 Government, 74 employers, and 91 workers). In addition, there was representation from the United Nations (7), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (3), the International Monetary Fund (1), the World Health Organization. (1), and a non-member State — viz., El Salvador. The New Zealand delegation was : Representing the Government — DelegatesRight Hon. William Joseph Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London. Mr. Herbert Leslie Bockett, Secretary of Labour and Director of Employment. Advisers and Substitute DelegatesMr. George Myers Frost Jackson, Department of Labour. Mr. Thomas Patrick Davin, Second Secretary, Department of External Affairs. Representing the Employers— Mr. William Joseph Mountjoy, Secretary of the New Zealand Builders and Contractors' Industrial Association of Employers and a number of the industrial associations of employers and industrial unions of employers, also Secretary of the Wellington Employers' Association, Incorporated. Representing the Workers— Delegate— Mr. Jesse Arthur Samuel Herring, Secretary of the New Zealand Federated Clerical and Office Staff Employees' Industrial Association of Workers, also the Auckland Clerical and Office Staff Employees' Industrial Union of Workers. Adviser — Mr. Peter Michael Butler, National Councillor, New Zealand Federation of Labour.