WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 5 October 1912, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

CARPENTERS’ AND LABOURERS DISPUTE. , Tbo Arbitration Court .at New Ply mouth has decided that the minimum pyyfrrf pf-.maaea t fpy i jphr|ipymQ|,L ■■ ■tors and joiners. shall ho Is 4j ai hour, . . Labourers employed in connection with the erection, alteration, or do molition of any building or in excavating or preparing ground for tin eame, shall bo paid not less than h Ud per hour for the time employed oi such work. Tunnel men and tunbei men 10s per shift, all other worker? engaged underground 9s per shift. Quarry work: Workers engaged in get ting out stone roughly squared to mea

euremont, is M per noui , hammer and drill men and jurnpe! men, Is Lid per hour. All other work era engaged in quarry work Is IJc .per hour. General work: Labourer! employed in concrete .work, pick am shovel work, sewer work, kerbing am channelling work, laying and clean ing drains and asphalt and tar work Is, Ud per hour. The question of preference in hoti eases came under the Court’s junsdi: tion and was also dealt with. Wellington, October 4. The Oamaru wharf labourers’ dis mite has been amicably settled.