ARBITRATION COURT
—-o> JOURNALISTS' AWARD. SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES. (Pna Ukitbd Pebbs Associattom.J WELLINGTON, July 24. The award of the Arbitration Court ia the Auckland journalists' disnute was mad* available to-day. The award stipulates that the minimum weekly salaries payable shall be as follow:—■ Senior reporters, £7 10s; general £6; junior reporters (first year), £4; junior reporters (second year), £4 10s; cadets (first year), £1 10s; cadets (second year), £2 15s; cadets (third year), £3 10s; first reader, £5; second reader, £4 10s; third reader, £4; copyholders—first year £1 sa, second year £1 10s, third year £1 15s. Sub-editors shall not be paid less than the rate prescribed for senior reporters. ,_ In an attached memorandum the court states: " With regard to the important question of salaries the court has, it will be seen, granted substantial increases to all journalists, but more particularly to tho reporting staff. These increases to reporters, in the opinion of the court, do not raise their salaries to amounts are reasonably commensurate with the education, knowledge, and ability which they ought to possess in order to discharge with efficiency the duties and responsibilities imposed upon them by the nature of their work "
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17686, 25 July 1919, Page 6
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194ARBITRATION COURT Otago Daily Times, Issue 17686, 25 July 1919, Page 6
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