BAKERS AND PASTRYCOOKS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18968, 5 April 1927, Page 13

BAKERS AND PASTRYCOOKS.

e • • v NEW AWARD FILED. !. e ?. (lEE 33 ASSOCIATION TZLEORAM-) WELLINGTON, April i. J A new award affecting bakers and " pastrvcooks in the Northern. Wellmg- „ ton, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland , d districts has been tiled in the Armtrud tiou Court. The hours of latotir are e fixed at 46 weekly. Anything >» £f ss « of 10 hours a day shall be paid lor * overtime, even if the total ot noius [! for tho week does not ex«*d «•• I. Double time rates must be paul empiOj- ( r ecs for work clone earlier than me 6 hour prescribed for starting (4 a.m. tot " bakers; 5 a.m. for pastrycooks;, t Minimum wages were fixed at to au* . n for foreman bakers or pastrycooks; to '• for iournevman bakers or pastrycooks, . I bakers' labourers. £4 Os 6d; jobber* I not less than 19s per day of eight . hours, or 2s 6d an hour if ,*or les. r than eight hours' work. "Wages tor * junior labourers between 18 years .iwt .! 19 were fixed at £2 2s 6d; 19 years and d under 20 vears. £3; all over 21 years t labourers' rates. Four years was iixea " as the term of apprenticeship lor „ females, the minimum weekly rate ot I wages being £L 2s 6d for the firs* six s months, with an increase of 3s Jd per 0 week at the beginning of each sutue--1 quenfc six months. At the end of tour years females shall be paid at least three-quarters of journeymen s ""-;fi es - Females may he employed in unskilled - work at a weekly rate of £1 2s 6d for r the first sis months, with an increase "I of os per week at tho boeimimg of cnc.i s subsequent six months. At the end of '- two vears the minimum weekly wage shall be £2 os;

A lamb with seven legs, two faces. I four ears, and two tails, born on a farm belonging to Mr J. Dood>> BarnbvDun. The mother ewe gave birth to a second lamb, perfectly normal. The freak died.