BASIC WAGE FALLS
COST OF LIVING DROP IN NEW SOUTH WALES EMPLOYERS SAVE £500,000 SYDNEY, Friday. Following upon the quarterly adjustment of the cost of living figures the basic wage level has fallen by from 3s a week for clothing trade employees and clerks, to 5s 6d for wharf labourers. The saving to the employers in New South Wales is estimated at about £500,000 a year. That on the railways alone amounts to £320,000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 11
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74BASIC WAGE FALLS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 11
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