MUSTERERS & DROVERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 12, 7 October 1937, Page 9

MUSTERERS & DROVERS

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Agreement on Wages AMICABIE SETTLEMENT

(By Telesraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. A wish that all litigants would adjust their differences in the same reasonablc way before arrival at the Council was expressed by the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. M. J. Reardon) at the conclusion of the sitting in Wellington today to confirm the agreement on an application by the N.Z. Workers' Industrial TJnion of Workers for a ncu Dominion award governing musterers, packers, drovers and snow rakers. The respondents were the N.Z. Sheep Owners' Industrial Union of Employers. It was agreed that musterers when employed to muster sheep be paid not less than £4 15s weekly if engaged by the week and not less than £1' daily if engaged by the day.' Musterers engaged by the week will receive additional payment for Sunday work. Packers employed in connection with mustering will be paid not less than £3 17s 6d weekly or 17s 6d daily if engaged by the day and weekly workers 17s 6d additional for any Sunday on' which they are required to shift camp, Any musterer or packer required to do snowraking will be paid £1 7s 6d daily while engaged on such work. Youths learning mustering are to be paid £1 12s 6d weekly for the first year, £2 5s for the second year and thereafter the full adult wage. The parties agreed that it was impos-# sible to regulate working hours in the industry, therefo're they added an extra amount to the rates provlded under the 1931 award to meet the requirements of the industryjin this respect. Drovers are to be paid not less than £1 8s daily (not found) with special rates according to distances. Preference if to be givem to unionists.