WATERSIDERS' PAY
FOR LOADING TRANSPORTS. (Per Press Association—Copyright). .DUNEDIN, May. 22. At .a (meeting of .the Council of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr Skinner, speaking on the Government praiso ' of the watersiders, for co-operation in the war effort, said ii was reported that work done in connection with the departure of the, First Echelon in January after midnight* andion .Sunday, the men were paid 10/8 hourly. Ordinary time on the wharv.es is .2/8 hourly, time and a half 4/-, and double time 5/4. “Actually ,1. ,ain informed that they were paid double time, doubled. I cannot guarantee the figures, hut if the Premier wishes to deny it let him tell the country the exact amount.” .Mr Skinner added that the situation . was i intojerahle in, such ..fateful days. He himself could guarantee to find 50 men to work the boats on Saturday afternoons and Sunday for nothing, as-
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1940, Page 6
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