INCREASED WAGES.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night, The Wellington Harbor Board to day rosolvcd to inoreaee tbo wages of casual laborers to Is 8d an hour, with 2s on hour overlimo, This will mean an addition to the wages bill of 4)2400 a year.
In a late issue o r -• > :i ;• J£ !,) •-o J publishes an ini or- i wit; urd Austmlian. " Talking immigration,” said tbo man - <• 1 the idea isn’t sweet ;o me. 13 emuwby ? —we bad a draft of assisted immigrants aboard, Irish, Scotch, »n<i Lm. Siehire navvies going to Maoriiaud uri.-h r jontract. They’re welcome to i'. Mioriland doesn’t know them as 1 u It lasn’t lived in the samo ship with tad brsn coiled or; to handle them. I i-Vi, uud i ic Sc<B my end up with the <>*»»;'.i ici» “h. a man with it all, but I say Cod help rhs country that imports trouble by shiploads. There’s no savage on eatth to equal the savage created by European civilisation, and Maoriland’s getting some striking samples to build its railways with, take it from mo.” j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1819, 27 July 1906, Page 2
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182INCREASED WAGES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1819, 27 July 1906, Page 2
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