JOURNALISTS' DISPUTE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16584, 25 July 1919, Page 7

JOURNALISTS' DISPUTE.

. rr—W~ ARBITRATION COURT AWARD. (PRESS association ttxegbam.) WELLINGTON, July 34. The award of the Arbitration Court in the Auckland journalists' disputo was made available to-day. The award stipulates that the minimum weekly salaries payable shall be as follows: — £ s. Senior reporters ••• ••• 7 10 General reporters ••• ... 6 0 Junior reporters (first year) ... 4 0 Junior reporters (second year) ... 4 10 Cadots (first year) ... ... 1 10 Cadets (second year) ... ... 2 15 Cadets (third year) ... ... 310 First reader ••• ... 5 0 Socoud reader ••• ... 4 10 Third reader ...4 0 Copyholders (first year) ... 15 Second year ... 1 10 Third vear • ... 1 15 Sub-editors sholl not be paid loss than the rate prescribed for senior reporters. The Court, in an attached memorandum.'states: ''With regard to the important question of salaries, the Court has, it will be seen, granted substantial increases to all journalists, but moro particularly to the reporting staff. These increases to reporters, in the opinion of the Court, do not raise their salaries to amounts more than are reasonably commensurate with the education. knowledge, and ability, which they ougnt to possess in order to discharge with efficiency the duties and responsibilities imposod upon them by the nature of their worli."