DEARER REPAIRS
ENGINEER’S EVIDENCE ARBITRATION COURT CASE Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. The Arbitration Court at Christchurch was occupied again today in hearing the Dominion dispute in the engineering industry. Archibald Charles Mitchell, superintendent engineer for J. J. Niven and Company and president of the New Zealand Ironmasters’ Federation, said that, in some special lines, manufacturing was gradually giving place to jobbing work. His firm was selling many imported refrigerating machines, instead of manufacturing them. The largest part of the repair work was connected with the primary industries, which "would have to face the main increase of cost. Where increased cost could be passed on, the employees’ demands in respect to “dirt money ’ meant that money would be added to the daily wage, which would be increased accordingly.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 11
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127DEARER REPAIRS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 11
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