WANGANUI BUTCHERS’ AWARD

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9469, 11 June 1909, Page 8

WANGANUI BUTCHERS’ AWARD

Per Press Association. We’lington, Jnne 10. The Commissioner lor Conciliation, Mr P. Hally, has forwarded to Mr A. Stubbs, Clerk of Awards, a copy of the agreement, signed by the parties connected with the butchering dispute at Wanganui for embodiment in the terxna of the award by the Court. The agreement affects eleven firms of employers. It provides for the hours of labour being 56 per week, to cease not later than 10 p.m. every Saturday, except in the case of pork butchers, 5 when work shall cease at 10,80 p.m. Every employer is to fix a schedule of hours for his employees which shall be submitted for the approval of the Union. The minimum rate of wage is to be:—First shopman £8 per i week, second £3 IQs, first small goods man £3 10a, hawking carters £3 10s 6d, general bands £3 10s, order carters (year’s engagement )J£2 per week, second £3 ss, third year £2 lOs; ' casual hands 9s [fid per day, Saturday only lie, boy under sixteen 17s 6d, sixteen and under seventeen £l, seventeen and under eighteen £1 2s 6d, eighteen and under nineteen £1 ss, nineteen and under twenty £1 7s 6d, twenty and under twenty-one £1 10a, over 31 £1 13s 6d. Provision is made for underrate workmen. The proportion of boys to men employed is not to exceed one boy to every three men or fraction of three men. All employees who are married men, other than those engaged in a pork butcher’s business, shall be allowed meat to an amount not exceeding 5s per week. The following -holidays are to be allowed without stoppage of pay New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, birthday of the reigning sovereign, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Anniversary Day, and the day on which the butchers’ annual picnic is held. The awards to re main in force for two years.