Miss Morrison thanked the Association for affording her the opportunity of laying her mission before them. Three or four years ago a very bad state of things had obtained in Dunedih in the manufacturing tailoring line. Girls were constantly worked twelve and fourteen hours a day on starvation wage?, such as would barely enable them to live. The Tailoresse8 fJJnidn wfiitfab lasb formed, and with the influential a«Bißtance of Mr George Fenwick, managing director of. the "Otago Daily Times," Mr S. Spragg, chief re porter of the _same journal, who published strong articles on the sweating system, and of two or three merchants, they were enabled to create a very strong public feeling in tho matter* A healthy tone Was obtained amongst the em ployers as to destroying " sweating"_ in Dunedin, and a satisfactory log of prices was formed and adopted in Christchurch and Wellington also. She felt certain it would work satisfactorily here. The "log" kept within importation prices, and matters on the whole in Dunedin were now fairly satisfactory, the log being adhered to by the' shops, except in one or two in stances. It was in connection with the fac tories that the grievance layY Mr Claris (Clark and Sons) aaid thab in tjhe South, the trade being older there, there were a greater proportion of skilled hands than there were in Auckland. As far as he was Concerned, he would be glad to pay the best wages possible in order to secure the best workpeople. If Miss Morri son wished the Association to recommend uniformity of payment throughout the colony,' he would support such a movement. Mr Finlayson (Sargoodj Son and Ewen) suggested that acommittee composed of somo members of the Association not in terested in the manufacturing trade should ba appointed with a committee from the manufacturers and Misa Morrison, to go in to the' whole question in Auckland, the Committee to consist of Messrs Graves Aickin (Vice-President), Arthur Wright (President Tailors' Association)< T. Finlay son, A. H. Nathan, and F. G. Ewington.
