RATES OF PAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1943, Page 3

RATES OF PAY

FOR TERRITORIALS ASSIGNED TO FARM WORK HOURLY RATES & BONUSES. TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS & CHARGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Men who «nave been selected for posting to the Territorial Force in the Wellington military area and who will in due course be mobilised for one month’s camp training, will be called on to help with harvesting operations in the South Island, probably in the Canterbury and Nelson districts. The disposition of men available is now being discussed by the Primary Production Councils and the Army, m conjunction with the National Service Department. Farmers who will be. helped with seasonal work by Territorial Force soldiers being mobilised under the farm labour scheme will be required to pay to the Government a flat rate of 2s 6d an hour or part of an hour ovbi 20 minutes, for every soldier employed on their farms. In cases where Army transport is provided the rates to be paid by the farmer have been fixed, at 3s 6d an hour for vehicles up to and including three tons carrying capacity, and 5s an hour for vehicles over three tons. The vehicle rates will be charged to the nearest quarter-hour. In addition to the general scheme under which the soldiers will be accommodated at military camps an , transported daily to and from then, work, a plan is being developed to help farmers fairly remote from the central Army camps and needing so few men that their daily transport would not be justified. Under this scheme the soldiers will be billeted by the farmers, who will be credited with an allowance of Is a meal and Is for each night’s lodging. Meals for whfch an allowance will be made are breawfast, dinner and tea, but not morning and afternoon tea. The same allowances will be made for any rations or quarters provided under the main scheme. Transport for which Army vehicles may be engaged include caiting hay in the field and, where private cartage contractors are unable to meet the- demand, cartage to or from rail, ship, or store. , . Under the Army arrangements for pay a bonus of 6d an hour is to be paid for each hour up to eight which is worked by a soldier between 7 a.m. ana 5 p.m., and one of 2s 6d an hour for work in excess of eight hours or before 7 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Work done in excess of eight hours or before 7 a.m. and after 5 p.m. is to be voluntary. All payments by the farmers are to be made to the Department of Agiiculture or department concerned for the work done. They are not paid directly by the farmers to the soldiers. The men will receive their bonus payments by warrant after demobilisation.