A party of three engineers who left New Zealand some three or four months ago for America soon obtained work in the shipbuilding yards there (says an exchange). One of the party, in a letter to his brother in Balclutha, says that he has charge of installing the turbine engines in one of the engine-rooms of a destroyer. Wages are high, and he has made as much as 60dol. 90 cents a week (£l2 13s 10£d). Sundays and all overtime are paid for at the rate of 6s per hour, and the average weekly wage (not including Sundays) is 49d0l 30 cents. He says there is little home life or sociability in America, everybody being keen after the dollars. There is plenty of work for marine engineers over there, but he thinks the labourers are just as well off in New Zealand, as living is so high in America.
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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 106, 14 November 1918, Page 2
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