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STOCK AND STATION COMPANIES

CLERKS SEEK NEW AWARD

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 31. Claims for a new award by stock and station agents’ clerical workers to cover the whole of the Dominion were heard in the Arbitration Court yesterday, when Judge Dalglish reserved his decision.

The new wage scale claimed provides for a starting wage of £l6O a year, rising to £620 at the end of 20 years’ service. The last district awards provide a starting wage of £l3l, rising ‘to £451 in the fourteenth yehr. The scale claimed for women is from £155 to £375 in 12 years in place of the present one of from £l2B to £268 in six years. “We submit that the occupation of a stock and station agents’ clerical vrorker calls for educational qualifications, ,special training, responsibility, and initiativ; equal to, if not greater than that of insurance clerks or t>ahk employees,” said the workers’ advocate (Mr K. McL. Baxter). For the employers. Mr J. R. Hanlon submitted that the restoration or the preservation of wages was decided by the Court in 1949, when it amended various awards after the standard wage pronouncement.

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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 3

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STOCK AND STATION COMPANIES Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 3

STOCK AND STATION COMPANIES Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 3

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