ENGINEERS’ WAGES.
M AKIN E DEPARTMENT’S RULING.
Press Association
; DUNEDIN, March 18. I'or some, time past £2O per month lias been regarded by the Marine Department as the ruling rate of pay for chief engineers on steamers within the Dominion, but instances have come to light- showing that a lesser sum has been accepted. A case occurred at Fort Chalmers to-day, where the chief engineer on a steamer had been working under a special agreement for £IG per month, and tlie Government held this agreement to be invalid, and the engineer in question will have to be paid £2O per month in future.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19080319.2.26
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2143, 19 March 1908, Page 2
Word Count
103ENGINEERS’ WAGES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2143, 19 March 1908, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in