LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23845, 14 January 1943, Page 4

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sapper,—£7B a year. Linwood.—“B" takes one for his last card. There is no second run. Not Moon-Struck.—See recent letter in our contemporary. Kaiapoi.—Personal attack over nom de plume disallowed. Cocky.—The North Canterbury Threshingmill and Clover-huller Employees’ Award provides the following rates:— Drivers (threshing or heading time), 2a 9Jd an hour; other workers (threshing or heading time), 2s 8d an hour. On American mills piecework may be worked when the grain being threshed runs not less than; (i) On a 22 by 88 mill, GO bushels-, an hour, 42s 2d a 1000 bushels for wheat and barley, or 39s a 100 bushels for oafs; (ii) on a 28 by 46 mill, 80 bushels an hour, 3Ls lOd a 1000 bushels for wheat and barley, or 29.s 3d a 1000 bushels for oats; (hi) on a 32 x 34 mill, 100 bushels an hour. 25s Sd a 1000 bushels for wheat and barley, or 23s 3d a 1000 bushels for oats. If while engaged on piecework the worker docs not earn the equivalent of hourly wages, the deficiency shall be made up by the employer. Bagmen shall be paid Is a 1000 bushels threshed in addition to the rates hereinbefore provided. Tile bagmen shall keep a tally of all grain, etc., threshed. On standard mills where the crops run 100 bushels an hour or over piecework may be worked at not less than the following rates—viz., £1 5s 3d a 1000 bushels for wheat or barley, and £1 3s 3d a 1000 bushels for oats. These rates are subject to two increases of 3 per cent, approved by the Arbitration Court. The award operates throughout, that portion of the Canterbury Industrial district lying north of the Rangitata river.