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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7933, 5 January 1906, Page 5

Auctioneers' Memoranda.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., make additions to tiieir Masterton stock sale.

The new award of the Arbitration Court in oonneotion with the Wellington, Olago, and Canterbury Tailoreasea and other Clothing Traaea Employees' Union came into force on Monday last. The award provides that members of the unions shall have preference of employment. All wages are to be paid weekly. Manufacturers are to have the right to introduce whatever machinery they may consider their business requires, and to divide or subdivide labour in any way they may deem necessary, subjeofc to the payment of wages according to scale prescribed by the Court. Twentyfour hours' notice of termination of -engagement is required from an •employer or employee. Any worker who considers herself or himself unable to earn the minimum rate of wages may be paid such lower wage as may from time to time be fixed by the Chairman of the Conciliation Board. The minimum weekly wage for any female woiker heretofore working on "piece" is to be the nearest wage to her average fulltime earnings during the last six months or less period tha* she has worked for her present employer. Improvers' wages are to range from 15s to 2SOa 6"d per week, and apprentices' wages from 5s to 12s 6d per week. Journey women's wages have sbe*n fixed at 25s per week.—Post.