BOOT EMPLOYEES
EXODUS FROM AUSTRALIA TO NEW ZEALAND. BETTER WAGES AND WORKING CONDITIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr J. Maloney, secretary of the Boot Employers Union said there had been an exodus of members to New Zealand, where rates of wages and conditions of employment were more attractive. He added that each week girls and boys with a knowledge of the industry were leaving for New Zealand, their passage money being paid and they being guaranteed continuity of employment with a 40-hour week and wages that were as much as £1 a week higher than those in Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 6
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106BOOT EMPLOYEES Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 6
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