LIVING WAGE FOR WOMEN.
NEW SOUTH WALES REDUCTION. Sydney, Dec. 29. The New South Wales Board of Trade’s declaration for the ensuing year of the living wage for women reduces it from £2 5s to £2 Is per week. This diminution is accounted for in the downward tendency in the prices of food and groceries, which more than counterbalance increases from 6s 8d to 10s for clothing and from Is 9d to 2s 6d for fares which have been allowed.
The wage is now based on a supposed rate for board and lodgings £1 3s Id —rather a finer tapering than even the Sydney landlady can justly be accused of —clothing lbs and miscellaneous 7s lid.
The first declaration of a basic wage for women was made in 1918, when the amount fixed was £*l 10s. In the following year the. amount was increased to £1 *l9s, and last year it went up to £2 ss. As in the case of ( the recent declaration for men, two members of the board were anxious to maintain last year’s rate, but the majority held that the board was bound to take notice of the lessened cost of living.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1922, Page 8
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196LIVING WAGE FOR WOMEN. Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1922, Page 8
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