Royal Commission on Stripper Harvesters and Drills
15 December 1908 – 30 July 1909
A commission of members of Parliament that inquired into the cost, selling prices and conditions of manufacture and sale of stripper harvesters and drills, the agricultural machines protected by the 1906 tariff and excise.
How it came into existence
Appointed by Letters Patent dated 15 December 1908, when the Fisher government converted the House of Representatives select committee on stripper harvesters and drills into a royal commission so that it would have power to compel evidence. Alexander Poynton chaired it; the other members were J. M. Chanter, G. W. Fuller, J. K. McDougall and S. Sampson.
How it ended
Its report was presented on 30 July 1909, and the commission then ended. It endorsed the “fair and reasonable” minimum wage set by Justice H. B. Higgins in the 1907 Harvester judgment.
Main functions
- Costs and selling prices of harvesters and drills
- Wages and working conditions in local manufacture and in the importers’ distributing houses
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