PUBLIC WORKS PAY.
_ I read in "Star" that the Minister of Public Works stated that oil figures received from the district engineers the average daily earnings for contract workers were over 17/ a day for the past month. I can emphatically deny this, as far as the Hobsonville air base fob is concerned. My own gang, a good gang, made 10/ a day, several others made only 13/4. During the month there were at least three days on which no work could be done, therefore no pay, and many more when it was impossible to remove sufficient spoil to make day wagefi, 2/ ail hour. How, then, can the rates have been so fixed that average workmen can earn 10/ a day during winter months? There is no provision made for time lost through wet weather, DISGR UXTLED.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 6
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