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WELLINGTON, December 21. The award for boilermakers, iron ship and bridge-builders provides for a forty-hour week on five days. One night shift each 24 hours will be permitted, but work at night for less than three consecutive nights is fixed for overtime rates, which is time and a-half ‘ for the first four hours, and double thereafter. Three shillings is payable per shift for night work. The wages are 2/52 hourly. The award will have one year’s duration. Mr Monteith dissented, considering that the rate should be 2/6 per hour. The New Zealand Passenger Transport Drivers’ Award was amended, reducing bus drivers’ hours from a 96 to an 80-hour fortnight, and providing a weekly maximum of 44 hours, instead of 52. hours. ’Service-car drivers’ hours were reduced from 96 to 88 per fortnight, and from 52 to 48 in any one week.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 8
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