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JUNE 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1921
During the recess a Judge has been appointed under the Industrial Con-
ciliation and Arbitration Act of last year, and according to the terms of that
Act he is devoting the whole of his time to the work of industrial disputes and
other labour matters, with the result that the arrears existing at the time of his
appointment will shortly entirely disappear. Some amendments supplying
machinery necessary to the effective operation of the Act will be submitted.
My Advisers think that the time has arrived to extend the benefit of the
Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act to those engaged in our industries,
and a Bill will be submitted to you for this purpose, and also making more
definite of ascertainment the compensation payable.
The discontinuance of the San Francisco mail-service has left New Zealand
without an expeditious over-sea steam service to England. The necessity for
this country maintaining a close association with the United Kingdom is keenly
felt, and it is of the utmost importance to all classes of the community that this
want should be remedied as early and as effectively as possible. My Advisers
hope that a practical solution of the difficulty will be devised, and, in such event,
proposals will be submitted for your consideration.
The development of our trade with other countries has been under the
consideration of my Advisers, and they are earnestly seeking means of more
cheaply reaching our best markets and of opening up and extending new
markets for some of our largest products. The importance to our producers of
being able to compete with the products of other lands makes cheap and
expeditious means of transit all-important, and careful consideration has been
given to this matter, and steps will be taken to further its objects.
The law relating to local bodies, especially in regard to their borrowing-
powers, is uncertain and unsatisfactory, and a measure dealing with this and
other branches of local government will be submitted to you in due course.
Bills dealing with the gambling evil, secret commissions, mental hospitals,
fire brigades, shops and offices, pure foods, and other important matters, will be
introduced.
I am satisfied you will bring to all the matters I have brought under your
notice, and to other measures which are to be submitted to you, your earnest
consideration and best judgment, and I trust that your labours and decisions
may have God's blessing, resulting in still furthering the prosperity, happiness,
and permanent well-being of the people of this colony as a whole.
By Authority : JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.-1907.
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