CARPENTERS’ WORK
NO TROUBLE IN DUNEDIN. HOURLY RATE AND WEEKLY EARNINGS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. This Day. “Although the hourly rate may appear high the average carpenter earns less than a man working in a store at a weekly wage,” stated Mr Ross, secretary of the Carpenters’ Union. Intimating that there was no present or anticipated trouble in Dunedin, he stated that the Wellington trouble arose over wet jobs and lost time. On the Exhibition work, bulldozers had been working, and the ground was a quagmire after rain. The Karori job also was very wet. Mr Ross added that in Wellington some builders were paying 3s to 3s 3d an hour, but men brought from Australia got only 2s 9Jd on the housing and Exhibition jobs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 6
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126CARPENTERS’ WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 6
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