ENGINEERS' AWARD
ARBITRATION COURT'S DECISION
(PHKSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, December 21. The Arbitration Court to-day issued the Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland industrial districts' engineers' award. It provides for a 40-hour week, with time and a half for the first four hours in excess of 40 hours and double time thereafter. Ship repair workers' hours are 44. The hourly wages are:—Toolmaker, 2s 8d; pattern-maker, 2s 7d; first-class tradesman. 2s 6d; second-class tradesmen 2s process worker, 2s 2Jd; moulders, 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Boys' and youths' wages range from 17s 6d to 62s 6d a week; female workers from 17s 6d to 47s 6d.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21972, 22 December 1936, Page 6
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