ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11501, 6 February 1903, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, February 5. Three awards were given by the Arbitration Court this morning. In the grocers' assistants the award provided for & hours per week, overtime to be time and a quarter for two hours and time and a half for the remainder, double time to be paid on holidays; carters to work 474 hours per week, exclusive of the time required for attendance on horses and mccl hours. Minimum wages for assistants and over the age of 23 years £2 5s per week, of the age of 15 up to 16 10b per week, from lb to 17 15s per week/-from 17 to 18 £1 "p er week, from 18 to 19 £1 5s per week, from 19 to 20 £1 10s per week, from 20 to 21 JEI 15s per week, from 21 to 22 £2 per week, from 22 to 23 £2 2s per Week; carters over 23 years are to be paid a minimum rate of £2 2s per week for one-horse carts, £2 6s for two-horse carte; assistants driving two horses shall be paid £2 6s, minimum wage, whatever bis age. The award in the engine-drivers dispute provided that a week's work should not exceed 48 hours, exclusive of the time occupied in getting up steam. The following were fixed as the minimum rates of wages for certificated drivers: —Drivers holding first-class certificate of competency 10s per day, drivers holding first-class certificate of service but not of competency 9s per day, drivers holding second-class certificates of competency 9s per day, and second-class certificates of service but not competency 8s per day. In the cases of locomotive and traction engine-drivers, the hours were to be fixed by the employers and drivers, the minimum rate of wages being Is per hour. The award applied only to certificated drivers in charge of boilers which required by law certificated drivers. The award in the brickmakers' dispute fixed the scale of payment for men beyotfd the age of 22 years at a minimum of Iβ per hour. For setters and drawers in Hoffman kilns the minimum was set at Is Old per hour, and burners IOJd per hour. Wages of workers from 16 to 17 yean were fixed at 15s per week, 17 to 18 years 18s per week, 18 to 19 years 21s per week, 19 to 20 years 22s per week, 20 to 21 years 7£d per hour, 21 to 22 year* 10£ d" per hour; overtime rates were fixed at time and a quarter for adults, 9d per hour up to 20 years of age.