A WAGE CUT
AGAINST SHEARERS
(Australian Press Association)
MELBOURNE, July 14
Judge Detoridge, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, has announced a new award covering shearers and shed hands.
The Judge has reduced the workers’ wages all round. The reduction is approximately one of twenty per cent.
The new award "ill operate from midnight. The minimum rate for shearing flock wethers, ewes and lambs is now 32s 6d per hundred. The former rate was 41s per 100. The minimum rate for rams above six months old is fixed at 65s pier 100.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1930, Page 5
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91A WAGE CUT Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1930, Page 5
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