WAGES IN AUSTRALIA.
It i.s estimated that the award of Judge Higgins in the Australian Workers’ Union ease, which gives an average rise of 23s a week to about 70,000 “station hands,” will increase the wage bill of the men on the laud by £-1,000,000 a year. The former scale was Os a day, but the award of the Court now raises the pay of unskilled “station hands” to what is in some cases the equivalent of £4 a week, with keep. Criticising the award, a Sydney newspaper says it may be that the high prices of station produce will enable many pastoralists to pay this wage and still have a good balance on the right side. But all are not similarly situated, and the award makes no distinction between the ease of the struggling pioneer and the established landholder with all his improvements completed and no borrowed money upon which to pay the high interest rates that war conditions Involve.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1745, 7 August 1917, Page 4
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161WAGES IN AUSTRALIA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1745, 7 August 1917, Page 4
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