PUBLIC WORKS LABOUR.
QUESTION OF MINIMUM WAGE. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. In reply to a question asked in the House by Mr H. E. Holland (Bullet) as to Whether he would consider the advisability of raising the minimum wage for labourers employed by the Public Works Department to a rate which would constitute a living standard, the Minister for Public Works (Hon. J. G. Coates) said that while the wage of labourers wap 13s 4d per day it has been the Department’s endeavour to provide that men be given work at piecework rates as much as possible, thereby permitting of their earning considerably more than the wage stated. For the twelve months ended December 24, 1923, the average earnings of unskilled co-operative labourers (excluding tunnel parties) throughout the Dominion was Is 10.49 d per hour, 14$ 11.92 d per day of eight hours, and the earnings of tunnellers was much higher.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4768, 24 October 1924, Page 2
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150PUBLIC WORKS LABOUR. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4768, 24 October 1924, Page 2
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