COST OF LIVING.
QUESTION OP RAISING WAGES.
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OF COURT
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night
The cost of living problem was discussed during tho hearing to-day of an application before the Arbitration Court by the engineers, etc., for an increased war bonus. The union representatives said the application was based on the Increased cost of living since the war The President (Mr. Justice Stringer) said the Court realised tivit an increase in the war bonus did not represent to the fullest extent the increased cost of living, but it seemed to him that raising wages as it were in corresponding with the increased coat of living,- was more or less like chasing a will-o'-tha-wisp. The Court raised tho wages in sympathy With the cost of living, and afterwards found the position no better He s:iw no alternative course for the Court to follow, and unless the Government stepped in and prevented the increased cost of living, in many respects the Court would have to go on doing it until something wa_> done.
A war bonus of 3d -per hour was agreed to.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1918, Page 6
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185COST OF LIVING. Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1918, Page 6
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