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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 10

An agreement regulating wages and conditions in the liquor trade in Australia for five years contains the following main provisions : Leading hands, £2 I7s per week; shiftmen, £2 14s, with the exception of New South Wales, where it shall be £2 16s; employees in lager beer cellars, vacuum room, or ice cellars, £2 17s; drivers of motor trolleys of less than three tons capacity, £2 17s; three tons or over £3; all employees in breweries and bottling departments, £2 14s. All casual employees in breweries and bottling establishments to be paid onetenth per day in addition to the wages agreed upon. Ordinary hours for all employees other than drivers and grooms, forty-eight per week. Shiftmen shall mean two or three shifts of men working sixteen to twenty-four hours respectively, of eight hours’ dura, tion in sequence, and they shall work eight hours straight out and fortyeight per week. Drivers’ hours to he fifty-two per week, in all States, except South Australia, where they shall work fifty hours per week.