CONCILIATION BOARD.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 85, 19 April 1901, Page 3

CONCILIATION BOARD.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, last night. In re the carters’ dispute the Conciliation Board decided to recommend that an industrial agreement continue for one year on the following lines : Payment- of minimum wages of £2 3s 6d weekly for driving and attending single horses, 232 8s for two or more horses ; hours of labor 474 a u-eck, exclusive of dinner hour, aud five hours on a registered half-holiday ; casual labor to be paid at the rate of Is 3d an hour, with overtime after 104 hours’ work. Overtime for permanent hands Is per hour for the first hour, Is fid afterwards. Holiday work counts ns time and a half; Sunday work at - double -rates. Preference to lie given to union hands, but outsiders must be admitted on_ payment of an entrance fee of os, without ballot. Special provision is made for drivers of aerated water carts. Sunday work in certain establishments to be paid for at the rate of half-a-crown an hour. The Board carefully considered ' applications to deal specifically with contracts with the Railway Department for delivery of goods.' ‘The'Board tegret their inability to do so, as any such attempt would prove ineffectual. They can only suggest that such parties should apply to the Government and public bodies concerned for a modification. It is for the Government and public bodies.to consider whether there should not be in their forms of contract a mutual condition altering the decision in cases whore the basis on which the parties contracted is alter o ' 5 means beyond