DAIRY FACTORY EMPLOYEES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 28, 28 November 1944, Page 4

DAIRY FACTORY EMPLOYEES

Sir ? — Would you please give space in your paper to the following. We wish to draw your attention to the mistake published in last Friday's Beacon witlr regard to the wages of dairy factory employees. When the hourly basis was given over the 12 months it should have read 2/2.6 or approximately 2/2%. This is of course the wages for adult, workers and we would like to draw your attention to youths working in dairy factories whose wages are very low. boy of 15V 2 years of age gets £1 per week, the scale working up when a youth is between 18 and 19 years and he gets £2 12s 6d per week and is very often expected to do a man's work. We would like to j)oint out the fact that although the boy. is what, 'would be called apprenticed to the job there are not many Boys who live close enough to the factory to be able, to board at and they are expected to pay their board out of their meagre wagesat times like these. Those boys who live at. home have to cycle 5 and 6 miles to work. Thanking you in anticipation. . Yours etc. T. eagleson 9 , Sec. Staff R 9 .P. Dairy, Edgecumbe./