CONCILIATION BOARD.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 290, 13 June 1907, Page 2

CONCILIATION BOARD.

TPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.* Wellington, June 12. This afternoon the Wellington Conciliation Board filed its recommendations in tho Wellington building recommends that forty-five hours shall trades laborers' dispute. The Board constitute a week's work, and not more than three and three-quarter hours to be worked on Saturdays. On other days, working hours shall be between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., but in the months May, June, July, and August, any employer may require, his men to commence work at 7.45 a.m., with only half an hour for dinner; at other times three-quarters of an hour shall be allowed. The minimum rate of tvagos for sea Holders is placed at Is 4d per hour, and workers engaged in any other capacity are to receive not less than Is 2d per hour. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a half until 9 p.m., and at double rates thereafter. Youths are to be employed in the proportion of one to every four fully paid laborers. Preference to unionists is conceded.