“GAGGED” THROUGH.
BASIC WAGE BILL
AMOUNT INCREASED
WILL COST A MILLION
dY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT . ReceWed Sep. 18, 12.30 p.m. BRISBANE, .Sep. 18. The Amending Bill, providing for the payment of a basin wag© of £4 5s to employees, Avas “gagge-d” through all stages of -the Assembly. The Minister lor Public Works, Air. Kir wan, said that the additional impost, on industry would be one million s-teir-iing, but he contended that fine general prosperity was such that it could bear the-increase. The leader of the Opposition said lie looked upon the intioduotion of the Bill ia-s liumiliation for the Goverumenit degradation to the Arbitration Court. It Iliad been brought in because the strike council had dictated to the Government.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 September 1925, Page 9
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118“GAGGED” THROUGH. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 September 1925, Page 9
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