ARBITRATION COURT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT

NEW AWARDS ISSUED CINEMA PROJECTIONISTS’ MAGES AND HOURS (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON. December 22. An award governiiig hours, wages, and general conditions for motion-pic-ture projectionists has been made for the Northern. Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Westland, and Otago and Southland industrial districts. Hours and wages are fixed as follows:

(a) Projectionists emnloyed in con, tinuous picture shows and/or shows giving two performances a day, 40 hours a week, £5 10s. (b) Projectionists in theatres showing eight screenings a week, 26 hours a week, £5 2s 6d.

(c) Projectionists in theatres showing seven screenings a week. 24 hours a week. £4 15s.

(d) Projectionists in theatres showing more than three and not more than six screenings a week, 28 hours a week, £ 4 ss.

(e) Projectionists in theatres showing not more than three screenings a week. 15s for each screening.

(f) Casual projectionists 17s for each performance of not more than four hours.

Projectionists’ assistants may be employed up to 40 hours a week, and are to be paid £1 a week between 16 and 17 years, rising to £2 5s at 20, and £3 16s' after 21.

Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours, with double time thereafter. Double time rates are to be paid for all time worked on Sundays. Christmas Day, Good Friday, Anzac Day, and Labour Day, and payments for Sunday work must not be less than £1 5s a screening.

DRIVERS’ AWARD

COURT’S DECISION ABOUT HOURS OF WORK

(riiE.SS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON. December 22. An Arbitration Court award issued to-day fixes a 44-hour week for drivers employed by common carriers and individual business firms throughout New Zealand, Drivers employed in establishments where a lesser number of hours operate will work this lesser number, but with night work on Saturdays. Drivers engaged in the delivery of bread will receive Is 3d an hour extra for all time other than specified attendance to horses and motor-vehicles worked before 7 a.m. Youths will receive 9d an hour extra. The hours of drivers of all motorvehicles engaged in goods transport services controlled bv the Transport Licensing Act are fixed at 88 a fortnight. The ordinary weekly hours of drivel’s employed in seasonal trades may be 52 during the season and 36 for an equal period in the remainder of the year.

BOILERMAKERS, ENGINEERS AND TRANSPORT DRIVERS

Advice of three awards made by the Arbitration Court was received by the secretary of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, Mr D. I. Macdonald, yesterday. The Dominion Engineers’ Award, details of which were published last week after the agreement in Conciliation Council, was approved. Two clauses in dispute were fixed by the court. Freezing company engineers’ weekly hours were fixed at 44, and the same provision was made for engineers engaged on ship repair work. A special provision was made allowing tannery engineers to work a 40-hour week in five and a half days. The award will operate from December 21.

In the Dominion Transport Drivers' Award omnibus drivers will work an 80-hour fortnight, with not more than 44 hours in any one week, and servicecar drivers will work an 88-hour fortnight, with not more than 48 hours in any one week. A new award was also issued for Dominion boilermakers to operate from December 21. Wages were fixed at 2s s;]d an hour and hours at 40, with a five-day week. BROKERS AWARDED £3OO COMMISSION ♦ CASE AGAINST ENGINEERING FIRM (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, December 22. Commission of £3OO. the full amount claimed, was awarded by the Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers) in the case of Campbell. Craig and Company, brokers, of Auckland, against H. N. Maunder. Ltd., engineers, of Wellington. The amount was outstanding commission on money found for the defendants to incorporate a company known as Zip Heaters, Ltd.