HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.
;. . i» The: ehilrlwn.'g tiervicea •' held- by..4!i-?; : P.etqitp.'lira!i.eli:;,of- t-hc.-Ssl-vation AraiVron: ■ were well- attond«l.. -La 4t i ;-'i>yeiii'n.g iho i rhildwn received tlieii' /jktes f '. : StalfCaptaiu AValls condiicfiiu;'.-'thc -orocswl--' inps. . There win a large ; audiei!ce. : Some, of the .-worßmen .eni}ih)v'.<kl oiithe. Petone sewrraye-' schome complain that,; under the I .,new geiib'ral. labourers' . agroeii'.eilt, they; are worse ' off-,' than ,'■ before. Oup 'iiifo.rmsnt' states that- bei- tore December 1 'they "received overtime »' after'.eiglit "hours'" v.'ork. on'" >■. and four- hours on Saturdays, "but now they v.'cre ohiiged to work -IS''hour:! . before, overtime was:, .considered. . He further poiutel out that; two; councillors had told him that no olio would f be cut clown when the new-agreement camc ill. "No wonder,"..he. said, "that the council" afeebpted Ibis"compact with' , the union; they know that, it was bet-.' j tor for them.;Wc •iwcfc-nevcr ceiirailt'ted regarding-it,' and-as : far as I kluv.v werc never represented at-any conference -on the matter, and yet are obliged J to submit to what is pract-icalb.» ] d'lictioii."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 2
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165HUTT AND PETONE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 2
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