ARBITRATION COURT
BAKERS AND PASTRYCOOKS
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. June 30. Difficulties in the way bf applying the 40-hour week prescribed in ’ the Factories Amendment Act to the baking and pastrycook industry in New Zealand were stressed by the employers when asking for an extension of hours to 44J and for the, right, to work ten hours in any one day, in the Arbitration Court to-day. The employers claimed that any speeding up of the process of breadmaking to conform to a restriction of hours would seriously affect the] quality of the loaf, with a resultanLuilling off in the consumption of wheat .products. The application was opposed by the representative of workers, who said that the-employers had consistently opposed svery reform that had been ' The Coirt’ reserved its decision.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1936, Page 5
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