WAGES DEFINED
COACHBUILDERS' AWARD Recommendations arrived at in Conciliation Council were incorporated in an award for Wellington and Canterbury coach and motor-body builders issued yesterday by the Arbitration Court. Rates of wages, were defined as follows:—Coachbuilders (woodmen); painters, blacksmiths, vicemen, panelbeaters, machinists, and trimmers, '2s 73d per hour; helpers employed in motor assembly works, 2s 4Jd per hour; helpers employed in' coach factories other than motor assembly works, 2s 3Jd per hour; assemblers, first year 2s 3d per hour, thereafter 2s learner assemblers, for the first six months 2s 3d per hour, for the second six months 2s 5Jd per hour, thereafter 2s 7Jd per hour; female machinists, for the first six months of employment £2 per week, after six months and up to eighteen months, £2 10s, thereafter £2 15s. An apprentice having completed his apprenticeship may be employed as an improver for not more than twelve months at a wage of 2s 3d per hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 7
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157WAGES DEFINED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 7
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