HIGHER WAGES FOR FARM WORKERS
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Revised Scale Operative from November 1 PRICE-GUARANTEE BASIS
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, Last Night. The revised scale of the minimum rate of wages payable to agricultural wOrkers employed on dairy farms, to operate from November 1 until July 31, . 1938, is issued by an Order-in-Council with to-night 's Gazette. ' The 1937 agricultural workers' wage 6xation order is in accordance with the provision made in the Agricultural Workers Act passed last year whereby the scale of wages may he varied having regard to the guaranteed price for dairy produce. The' new weekly rates are: — Workers under 17, 18s 6d. Seventeen but under 18, 2-isz Under 19, 29s. Under 20, 34s 6di. Under 21, 39s 6d. Twenty-one and unward; 45?/ ' " — \ When the Agricultural Workers Act came into force on October 1, 1936,. the following rates of wages were prescribed: — ,y Under 17, 17s 6d. ' Seventeen to 18, 22s 6d.: Eighteen to 19, 27s 0J,' Nineteen to 20, 32s 6L Twenty to 21, 37s 6d. ^ Twenty-pne and over, 42s 6d.\ Female workers received the wme rate, as youths and men of equivalent ' ifige. Where board and lodging were not provided 17s 6d weekly had to be
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 42, 12 November 1937, Page 9
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