SHEARERS' WAGES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 620, 26 August 1933, Page 5

SHEARERS' WAGES

(Press Assn.-

industrial agreement converted into an award RATES OF PAY

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Auckland, Friday. The industrial agreements reached in the Conciliation Council between the sheepowners and the shearers, and the shed hands in the Northern, Wellington, Marlborough, Canterbury Otago and Southland industrial districts were converted into awards hy the Arbitration Gourt to-day. The new agreements come into force on September 1 and will remain in operation until March 31, 1936. For the coming season, rates . of pay will be as follows :— Shearers, not less than 18s per 100 sheep or lambs, with rations. In cases where shearers find their own rations, the rates will be increased hy 5s per 100. The rate for stud sheep is to be settled- by agreement between the employer and the shearer. The rate for shearing hogget rams is to he rate and a-half and for other rams double the ordinary rate. Pressers are to be paid £2 5s by the week and Is 3d by the hour. All other shed Kands are to he paid £2 by the week and ls Id by the hour. Youths over 16 years and under 18 are to receive £1 5s by the week and 9d by the hour. Cooks for 12 men or under are to be paid at the rate og £2 16s a week, or 10-s a day if employed for fewer than seven days. Where over 12 men are employed, the wages shall he hy agreement hetween the employer and the worker, but in no case shall he less than the minimum of £2 16s. Cooks' assistants are to receive £2 5s a week, or 8s a day if employed for fewer than seven days. All shed hands are to be provided with rations by the employer and an extra £1 a week is to be paid when it is agreed that the worker shall provide his own rations. The rates of pay for the 1934-35 and 1935-36 seasons areto be adjusted in accordance with the movement of wool prices as determined by the Government Statistician's index numher for export prices of wool. An index number of 600 equals 18s per 100 sheep, 1000 equals 21s 6d per 100, and 1900 equals 27s 6d per 100 for shearers.