SLIGHT RISE IN N.S.W.
Child Endowment To Operate Automatically. COMKIBBIOJIERB DIVIDED. 03? Cable—Press Association.—Copyright-) SYDNEY, June 27. The basic wage judgment of the Industrial Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Piddington, has been issued. It fixes the living wage on a standard of a man and wife ti £4 5/ a week. This is an increase of on* shilling a week upon the current rate. The finding is not to apply to rural industries, which will be dealt with later. In delivering his ruling, Mr. Pidding. ton also announced that the rate for women had been increased by 3/6 to £2 6/ a week. The employees' representative on tin Basic Wage Commission dissented from the judgment..He proposed a basic wage of £4 17/. The employers' representative also dissented from the judgment. He said that with a reduction of the family unit, which was previously taken into consideration in granting the basic wage for a man, his wife and two children, there should be a reduction also in the basic wage. Mr. Piddington announced that under the new finding no rise in prices would be justified. Mr. J.- T. Langs child endowment scheme of 5/ a week will now automatically come into operation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 150, 28 June 1927, Page 7
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