DAIRY FARM WORKERS.
NEW WEEKLY WAGE RATES,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.>
WELLINGTON, Thursday.
A revised scale of minimum rate wages payable to agricultural workers employed on dairy farms, to operate as from November 1 until July 31, 1938, is issued by Order-in-Council with tonight's "Gazette."
The 1937 agricultural workers' wage fixation order is in accordance with a provision made in the Agricultural Workers Act passed last year, whereby the scale of wages may be varied having regard to the guaranteed price for dairy produce.
The new weekly rates are:—Workers under 17 years, 18/6; 17 but under 18, 24/; under 19, 29/; under 20, 34/6; under 21, 39/3; 21 and upward, 45/.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 13
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