AUCKLAND NEWS.
BRICKLAYERS’ WAGES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. For some time dissatisfactiou has been felt at tho hours of the operative bricklayers. At the Conciliation Court, the hours of carpenters were reduced from 47 to 44 hours per week, but the bricklayers continued to work 47 hours, and were paid as for 48, at Is 44d per hour. Recently, the bricklayers demanded an increase in wages to ls6d per hour, working the same number of hours per week. To this the Alaster Builders’ Union refused to agree, but proposed to raise the wages to Is 6d per hour, at the same time reducing the hours to 44 per week. A meeting of operative bricklayers, there being no bricklayers’ union, decided to accept the terms of the master builders. This means that the bricklayers will receive the same weekly wages as heretofore, but will work three hours less per week. AIAN DROWNED. Alfred Squire Houghton, a farmhand, was accidentally drowned at Waitakerei Creek this morning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 66, 21 March 1901, Page 2
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