Answers to Correspondents
Inquiries should be addressed to the Editor, and the envelope inscribed in the upper left-hand corner “A.T.C.” " Interested.”—We are inquiring. " Interested,” Highcliff.—The public debt of New Zealand on March 31, 1936, was £322,239,000, and the figures for March 31 of this year, according to the report of the Public Debt Commissioner, which was presented to Parliament in August last, were £540,598,993. “ Catlins.”—Communicate with P. Fraser and Sons, 140 Stuart street, Dunedin J. M. L.. Lawrence.—The 1947-48 award covering shed hands in shearing sheds provides for a 44-hour week at the rate of £5 3s a week, or 2s Id an hour, with lations. The hours of work are between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m., or 5.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. The award rate is binding on employers, and if any dispute arises all the machinery is on the job for effecting a settlement.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 6
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146Answers to Correspondents Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 6
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