PAY FOR SHEARERS
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Substantial Increates Made COMPARISON OF RATES
(By leiegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. Substantial increases have been made in the rates of pay of New Zealand shearers and shedhands for next season. The rates are as follow, those of" last year being in brackets:— Machine shearing, not less than 34/- a hundred with rations (27/-); shearing by hand, 36/6 (29/6) ; where shearers iind themselves in rations, an allowance of 4/- a day; stud sheep and hogget rams, rate and half; for other rams, double ordinary rates; shedhands and pressers, £5 1/- a week (£4), by hour 2/9 (2/2) ; all other shed hands, £4 11/* a week (£3 10/-), by hour 2/7 (2/-); eooks, twelve men or under, £5 11/- a week (£4 10/-), per day £1 1/- (17/6) ; over twelve men, the wage to be increased 2/6 a week fQr each additional man and over eighteen an assistant shall be employed at the rate of £3 16/- (£3 15/-), or 17/4 a day (15/-). All rates are subject to same adjust* ment. The conditions are the s&me as last season.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 163, 28 July 1937, Page 5
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183PAY FOR SHEARERS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 163, 28 July 1937, Page 5
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