SHEARERS’ WAGES
Increase Next Season ißy Telegraph-Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 1. Substantial increases have been gained in the rates of wages to be paid to shearing workers in the 1934-35 season, according to a circular issued by the New Zealand Workers' Union, which states that as a result an additional £100,003 will go to the men. Shearers are to get 22/6 per hundred sheep instead of IK/-, pressers 55/- a week instead of to/-, and other shed hands 50'- instead of 40/-.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 195, 1 August 1934, Page 7
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82SHEARERS’ WAGES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 195, 1 August 1934, Page 7
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