AUCKLAND NEWS.
Per Press Association. Auckland, last nighi
Application for reference of an indue* trial dispute between the Auckland master painters and the Auckland house painters industrial union was filed to day. The union ask that 44 hours shall constitute a week’s work, that all journeymen painters be paid Is 3d per hour, which shall bo the minimum wage, that workmen over the ago of 50 years may accept- a minimum rate of Is per hour, that all boys be legally indentured or apprenticed, and shall not exceed one to every four journeymen or fraction of four.
In consequence of the marked improvement of fire appliances and complete system of electric tiro alarms recently established here the insurance companies have agreed to reduce the rates in Auckland city proper.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1034, 29 October 1903, Page 3
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