WEEKLY WAGES UP TO £44
JOURNEYMAN WORKING ON MINESWEEPER, (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 10. Weekly wages ranging from £9 for an apprentice not yet out of his time, through a swiftly rising scale, to as much as £44 for a journeyman, surprised members of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board when an appeal on behalf of Alfred Ernest Combes, an engineer’s apprentice, wps made by the Senior Foundry, Ltd. The manager of the foundry said the wage list submitted represented a period of extraordinary activity in connexion with’work on minesweepers, including double-time rates and dirt and welding money. Such exceptional figures were produced solely to show the board the difficulty of obtaining men. -Mr A. M; Samuel, a member of the board, said he was interested in the wages sheet in the hope that he might find a suitable career for his sons The appeal was adjourned for three months.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23352, 11 June 1941, Page 8
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