ARBITRATION COURT.
•:■•• VARIOUS AWARDS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March I. The Arbitration Court in its decision in the Wellington tailors' dispute awarded a minimum wage of £i a week against £3 15s formerly, and in regard to piece work the previous time statement will be continued with the provision that it shall be calculated at the rate of Is 3d per hour instead of Is 2d. In the decision filed in the Wellington furniture trade dispute provision Is made for a 44-hour week with certain exceptions in establishments under tlr Shops and Offices Act. The minimum to journeyman cabinetmakers, upholsterers, chair and frame makers, machinists, wood carvers, turners, upholsterers, i 3 Is 10>/,d per hour plus 3d bonus, and picture-framers, wire-mat-n-ossers Is M per hour plus 3d bonus; laborers, timber stacking, etc.. h (id per hour plus 3d bonuses, apprentices los first year, 20s, 255, 30s and 4.5s in succeeding years to the fifth. The award operates till March Ist, 1922
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1920, Page 6
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161ARBITRATION COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1920, Page 6
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