FIREMEN’S PAY AND LEAVE
INCREASES SECURED [Pes United Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., September 29. Increases in the rates of pay and an extra fortnight’s leave for firemen are granted in an agreement reached to-day in the Conciliation Council proceedings between the Wellington Fire Brigade Employees’ _ Union and the Palmerston North Fire Board, Considerable interest attaches to the settlement, as the terms are likely to be treated as a basis for disputes affecting fire brigades’ conditions in provincial centres. The wages fixed were: Probationer firemen £3 5s a week, third-class firemen £3 7s 6d, secondclass £3 19s 6d, first-class £4 9s 6d, senior £4 10s, firemen-raechanic £4 12s 6d. Married men not provided with living quarters are granted £1 extra, and single men 5s extra where there is no mess.
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Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 1
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129FIREMEN’S PAY AND LEAVE Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 1
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