GROCERS’ AWARD
BOY LABOUR QUESTION [per PRESS ASSOCIATION.] "WELLINGTON, October 2. When the Wellington grocers’ dispute came before the Arbitration Court, to-day, Mr. M. J. Reardon for the Master Grocers, said the present award had never been satisfactory to them. The question was whether boy labour w r as to be commercialised, while adults were being paid unemployment wages. He contended there was an undue proportion of boys employed in chain stores, the staffs of which usually’ consisted of a man, a youth and a boy. In evidence, H. Wardell, master grocer, said he employed twenty-three men and considered where an employer could employ a man in the grocery trade, and pay him a man’s wages, he should do so. Judge Frazer: Taking the average boy and the average man, would you rather employ the average man at a man’s wage than the average boy at a boy’s wage? Witness: Yes. (Proceeding)
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1933, Page 6
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