CARPENTERS' AWARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 8

CARPENTERS' AWARD.

NEW RATES OF PAY. TEMPORARY EXEMPTIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Arbitration Court has made its award in the New Zealand carpenters and joiners' dispute in terms of the agreement reached in Conciliation Council. Wages are 2/9 an hour from September 8, an<l 2/9j from September 1.3. The majority of the builders have been paying the new rates since the agreement was reached. Conditions attached are tliat certain parties should be temporarily struck out, and that argument should be heard later whether they should be parties. If the Court decides they should the rates of pay should l>e retrospective to September 15. The conditions are that the clause concerning the fixing of reinforcing steel, wall boards and wirenetting should be temporarily struck out, argument 10 be heard later when the respective awards involved in this clause, the plasterers and metal workers, are before the Court; that the clause concerning work amid acid conditions in fertiliser companies should also be temporarily struck out. On behalf of the New Zealand Carpeters and Joiners' Federation. Mr. Moulton objected to the striking out of the parties, but agreed to the proposal temporarily for the sake of having au award made.