WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

The Canterbury Conciliation Board met yesterday, when the case of the Gardeners Union came up for consideration. The union had cited all who employed a man as gardener for the whole or any part of his time. The argument of employers was that though they employed men who did gardening work those men were included under the heading of general manservanta, as they had miscellaneous duties to perform. Several employers applied to have the matter referred direct to the Arbitration Court, and after a short discussion the Board decided to adopt that course.

The agreement between the Canterbury Shearers' Union of Workers and the Can-, terbury Sheeprowners' Union of Employers, drawn up at a conference of delegates last _ October, has at the request of the parties been embodied, without further hearing, in an award of the Arbitration Court. The price for shearing by machinery is fixed at 16s 8d per hundred, with rations, and for shearing by hand at 17s, with rations. If shearers find themselves, the rate is 3s 4d ner hundred extra. The rate for stud sheep is to be as per arrangement. The price for shearing hogget rams is to be rated at half, and for other rams double the ordinary rate.