AUCKLAND JOURNALISTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 25 July 1919, Page 5

AUCKLAND JOURNALISTS

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN SALARIES.

(BY TELEGRAPH — PKEBB ASSOCIATION ) WELLINGTON, July 24. The award of the Arbitration Court m the Auckland journalists' dispute was made available to-da-y. The award stipulated that the minimum weekly salarcies payable shall be as followsSenior reporters £7 10s, general reporters £6, junior reporters (first year) £4 second year £4 10s, cadets (first year) £1 10s, second >ear £2 15s, third year £3 10s, jirst reader £o. second reader £4 10s, third reader £4, copy holders nrst year £1 os, second year £1 10s, third year £1 15s. Sub-editor s shall not be paid less than the rate proscribed for senior reporters. Th© Court, in an attached memorandum, states: "With regard to the important question of salaries, the Court has, it will be seen, granted substantial increases to all journalists, but more particularly to the leporting staff. These increases to reporters, in the opinion of the Court, do not raise their saJane s to amounts more than are reasonably commensurate with the education knowledge, and ability which they ought to possess in order to discharge with efficiency the duties and responsibilities imposed upon them by the nature of their work."