AUCKLAND JOURNALISTS' AWARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1919, Page 5

AUCKLAND JOURNALISTS' AWARD.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night, The award of the Arbitration Court in the Auckland journalists' dispu.te was made available to-day. The award stipulates that the minimum weekly salaries payable shall be as follows: Senior reporters £7 10s, general reporters £O, junior reporters (first year) £4, second year £4 10s, cadets (first year) £1 10s, second year £2 15s, .third year £3 10s, first reader £5, second reader £4 10s, third reader £4, copy holders (first year) £1 ss, second year £1 10s, third year £1 15s. Sub-editors shall not be paid less than the rate prescribed for senior reporters. The court, in an attached memorandum, states: "With regard to the important question of salaries, the court lias, it will be seen, granted substantial increases to all journalists, but more particularly to the reporting staff. These Increases to reporters, in the opinion of the court, do not raise their salaries to amounts more than are reasonably commensurate with the education, knowledge, and ability which they ought to possess in order to discharge with efficiency .the duties and responsibilities imposed upon them by the nature of their work."