LIVING WAGE FOR WOMEN
NEW SOUTH WALES REDUCTION,
(ntOH OUR OWN CORMBPONDMT.j SYDNEY, 29th December. The New South Wales Board of Trade's declaration for the ensuing year of the living wage for women reduces it from. £2 5s to £2'l» peri.week. This diminution is accounted for in the downward tendency in the prices of food and groceries, which more than counterbalance increases from 6s Bdto 10a for clothing and from Is 9d to 23 6d for fares which have been allowed. ■ The wage is now based on a supposed rate for board and lodgings of £l 3s Id —rather a finer tapering than even the Sydney landlady can justly be accused of—clothing 10s and miscellaneous 7s lid.' { '. , '■ / . The first declaration of a, basic wage for women was made in 1918, when the amount fixed was £1 10s. In the following year the amount was increased to £1 19s, and last year it went up to £2 ss. j As in the case of the recent declaration for men, two members of the board were anxious to maintain. last year's rate, but the majority held, that the board was bound to take notice of the lessened cost of living.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1922, Page 9
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198LIVING WAGE FOR WOMEN Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1922, Page 9
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