FULL AGREEMENT.
MUNICIPAL LABOURERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A full agreement was reached as to wages and working conditions in the Wellington municipal labourers' dispute. The old award was renewed without any reduction in wages (other than the 10 per cent reduction imposed by the general order in 1931), while improved conditions have been agreed to for certain special work. The new provisions include additional payment for men clearing or repairing blocked sewers or drains, work inside boilers, flues and combustion chambers; an increase in rates of pay to men in charge of refuse disposal tips and collectors on night work, and an additional rate for trenching, or shaft-sinking where over Bft in depth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 206, 1 September 1933, Page 3
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115FULL AGREEMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 206, 1 September 1933, Page 3
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