WAGE VARIATION
CONDITIONS IN AUSTRALIA. Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, January 20. Mr Lyons, at the conclusion of his visit to Sydney, in a speech said that the ridiculous discrepances between wages and conditions in different States would Hot work. Wa’ges varied from £3/3/- for a week of forty-eight hours in South Australia to £4/2/- a week for forty-four hours in New South Wales. Mr Lyons told a. deputation that the Commonwealth’s financial position had made impossible a restoration of invalid and old age pensions to former levels
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 6
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87WAGE VARIATION Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 6
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