COST TO DUNEDIN
FORTY-HOUR WEEK
(By Telegraph.) ■ .•;■ (Special to the "Evening Post")
'.*■ DUNEDIN, This Day.
; Qbuncillor M.1 .Silverstone,: chairman of the finance committee of the Dunedin City.Council, told a "Daily Times" reporter yesterday that the most important question to be considered by the council at the present time was the financing of the 40-hour week, which will come into operation on September 1. Various departments had drawn up , their reports and they were.now being I considered by ;the committee, on the basis of the cost of works carried out by theVcity last year. ' : ■-.
■ .Additional; .expenditure / resulting from • the; 40-hour week, would probably amount to' £50,000.. A; pprtion of this extra- cost would come back to
the city in: the increased revenue-from various departments consequent ■■; on the better spending' power of the people, increased city 'valuations,-, and a i decrease in -the amounts outstanding in rates. The rest of the £50,000 would have to be made-up -by other means.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 8
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158COST TO DUNEDIN Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 8
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