SHEARING SHED WAGES
• 'AN 'AGREEMENT -REACHED. _ 'A conference wap. held; afternoon botween rejpresMitatives of the New Zealand- Shipowners' Federation and the Nejy- Zealand r Sheajers' ! and AVoolshed Employees' -Union, to ■discuss the shea-hands' demands. 'Messrs. H. D. Acland, .A. Bell, Roderick M'Kenzie, H. Ak'N6vinsj P. Patullo, iW. Pr.vor, and F.:SH. Labatt: represent? Ed the owners, and Messrs.' J. King;'E,>_; I Townsend, J. W: ;Keoghj" and M. Lar-" . acy represented the; shed hands,, ;.:'4 r . - , As a result of the confereiice an agreemcnt was arrived fit; ■ which will bo submitted to the Court to bc'converted.ihto an award. Following is the new,: scale ;> ;; of wages, the old rates being in pareii-. tliososPressers and' wool rollers,', .'jet 15s. (£1 10s.) per week, or Is. -2d. (Is.) per hour ; all other shed-handsel 12s. 6d. (£1 7s. 6d.) per-week; ior, ls., lcl. i ; (lid.) per hour; oooksj,/£2,.(£l 1 155.)-| per week; cooks' assistants, £1:125...6d:j (£1 7s. 6d,) per 'week;-- 'The"'clause' permitting- youths -and Maori females under the age of eighteen years ,to : bo employed at £1 per week with board and lodging has been struck . out of.'-.the 6chedulS. 1 : -■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 16 July 1915, Page 8
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184SHEARING SHED WAGES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 16 July 1915, Page 8
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