PAYMENT BY RESULTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1938, Page 23

PAYMENT BY RESULTS

SAID TO EXIST NOW

The system of payment by results was briefly mentioned during the hearing in the Conciliation Council in Wellington yesterday of a dispute between the employers of general labourers and the employees over the employees' claim for increased wages. The employees' assessors expressed their willingness to consider anything that would benefit the industry as a whole.

Mr. W. J. Mount joy: I think the present system is a wrong one. A man who can do more work should get more for it.

Mr. P M. Butler: We have made provision for that with the minimum wage. You can pay what you like above that.

Mr. A. Fletcher: You have that now. Some labourers receive considerably above award rates, and the roughies receive the award wages.

A marriage ceremony performed by the skipper of an air liner is not legal, Superior Judge Thomas Gould ruled at Los Angeles in the case of Edward 1 yon Glatte, 32 years bid, and his bride, Jane Webster yon Glatte, 25. Last July they flew three miles up and three miles out from the California coast line in a United Air Lines passenger ship and were married by Captain Richard Bowman, in command of the craft. The county recorder refused to record the licence, however, on advice of the county counsel, who held that Captain Bowman was not qualified under California law to perform the ceremony. The couple contended that under the circumstances Bowman was as qualified as captains of ocean-going vessels who perform ceremonies at sea.