PRICE OF MEALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1938, Page 7

PRICE OF MEALS

PENNY INCREASE MADE IN WELLINGTON MEETING ADDITIONAL COSTS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. City workers and business people who take their x meals in Wellington tea-rooms and restaurants will be obliged, /after next Monday, to pay a penny more for morning tea, afternoon tea, lunch or dinner than is at present the case. The increase in the price of meals was announced yesterday by city restauranteurs.

At a meeting of the 'Wellington Tearooms, Restaurant and Refreshment Rooms Proprietors’ Association held recently it was decided to impose a surcharge of one penny on all morning and afternoon teas, luncheons and evening meals, for the purpose of meeting the increased cost of foodstuffs and the higher wages and working costs brought about by the recent tearooms and restaurant employees’ award. Ii was decided to make the surcharge operative from September 12. It was explained that under the new award the wages of all waitresses and female workers have been raised by 2s 6d, and those of male workers by 5s a week. Annual holidays have been extended from a week to a week and two days, while an annual holiday of a week and two days has been prescribed for emergency workers, for whom no holiday was previously specified. In addition, all tearoom and restaurant workers must be supplied with two substantial meals daily on working days. Restauranteurs stated that in addition the prices of foodstuffs had risen.