INCREASE IN WAGES
Market-Garden Workers (N.Z. Preu Association! WELLINGTON, Oct 12. The Minister of Labour (Mr Shand) announced today that under an . Order-in-Council gazetted today the wage. of agricultural. workers employed la ! iuvso( gardens would be increased. The insms-” i.” The new wgge rates incorporate increases recommended by the Court of Arbitration, which had heard submissions from the Labourers Union and the Vegetable and Produce Growers' Federation. The agriculturist, Workers Will receive the following Increases (given to the nearest cent): weekly, workers: adult males $2.48, adigfr females $2.37; hourly workers: adult males 6c,'adult females 4c. The wage rates of youths and girls have also been increased.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 26
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106INCREASE IN WAGES Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 26
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