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Evening Star, Issue 16514, 28 August 1917, Page 4

Unusually high wages are just now being earned by railway hands, engine fittors, and wharf laborers in the Northern Territory, states the Port Darwin correspondent of an exchange. A fitter recently received £47 Is for a fortnight's pay, another £37 18s 9d. One fitter stated recently that he earned £7 for one Sunday. The enormously his;h rates are being obtained under a system which pays at treble rates when a certain number of overtime hours have been worked. The cost of living is by no means proportionate to these extraordinary waxes. Out of £345,504 received in the" year just ended by 1,135 men and boys, about per cent, was put in the. savings bank, 27£ per cent, was remitted outside the Territory, 20.3 per coat, was '* spent over the Government hotel bare," and 38.8 per cent, was accounted for by local living expenses.