SUGAR SUPPLY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 7

SUGAR SUPPLY

. • REFINERY EMPLOYEES DO NOT MAINTAIN OUTPUT. (BY TEIiEGBAPH—PEKBB ASSOCIATION ) X AUCKLAND, F©b. 11. The Hon. E. P. L«e. replying to a request for retrospective pay to ™c sugar works' employees, states that the output has not been maintained at 14,000 tons in a y 44-hour week as toe workers' representatives contended could be done, the weekly output rangino- from 91 tons in September to T220 1 tons in December. The Minister Btates i the sugar workers' hours and wages are considerably higher than was rec- | koned when the prices of sugar were fixed and he therefore regrets he 1S unabie to recommend the granting of the workers' request, but he urges them to co-operate in efforts to increase the output. 4