BUSH SAWMILLS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 126, 29 May 1914, Page 2

BUSH SAWMILLS

AWARD IN TARANAKI DISTRICT. NEW PLYMOUTH, 28th May. i After two days' sitting, the Conciliation Council has fixed an award for the Taranaki timber workers, the first : award to be made in tho district for bush sawmills. The minhflum wages aTe at ordinary rates for not more than 94 hours of tho fortnight for bush mills. The schedule is . as follows :— Head bencliman, who keeps the saws, Is 6d per hour ; henchman who does not, Is 8d per hour. First breakdown man, Is 6d per hour ; second breakdown man, Is 2<l per hour. Tailer-out, Is 2d per hour. Head yardman (per week), £3 ss. Crosscutter, keepihg the baws, Is id per hour; other crosEcutters, Is 3d por hour. Bul-lock-driver, Is 3d per hour. First ropeanan, Is 3d per hour ; second ropeman, 'is 3d per hour. Jackman, Is 3d per hour. All other labourers, including casuals, Is 3d per hour. Nightwatchman (per week), £2 12s 6d. Tho ihoura of -work in town mills, yards, and factories are not to exceed 47 hours per week, The hours shall be from 7.30 a.m. to noon, and from J p.m. to 5 p.m. during tho first five days of tho week, and from 7.30 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, except that during the months of May, June, and July the hours may be from 7.30 a.m. to noon, and from 12.40 p.m. to 4.40 p.m. The hours may be adjusted by arrangement with the union to suit varying conditions, provided that not more than eight hours and a-half be worked in any one day between the houm .of G a.m. and 6 p.m., and not more tthat 47n t 47 hours in on© week. Other usual conditions aa to preference and un-der-rate workers ate also included.