ANSWERS TO CORESPONDENTS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14586, 10 February 1913, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORESPONDENTS.

"Another Old Highlander.—Thanks for drawing our attention to the matter referred to in your letter.

WHAIIF LABOURERS' PAY. TO THE EDITOR OF "XHK PfIKSS." Sir, —Having read in to-day's "Press" a letter signed by "One- Interested" I think it is only right that someone should correct his high-flown ideas of a wharf labourer's pay at Lyttelton. He says that a "Sumner Resident," -writing to your paper re. trarfways, ''was not conversant with facts or he would not have rushed into print with certain statements." Surely this is a! case of the "Pot calling the kettle black" as "Ono Interested" cannotknow anything of wharf labouring if ho thinks the pay is 2s 10d for an eight- j hour shift; 2s 10d is only paid for a j dinner or a tea hour, the pay being Is 5d for and Is 6d for coal during the daytime. Another thing he has evidently forgotten is that tramway employees get their Is and Is 2d : per hour all through the year whereas a wharf labourer may be idle for days at a time and I should not be far wrong in stating that the average' wharf labourer does not get more than ; £2 10s per week if the average be taken for the year.—Yours, etc., "ONE WHO KNOWS.