AN AWARD'S EFFECT.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 21. Partly as a result of the recent award in tho engineering trade, and partly owing to the slack season, a number of men employed in the agricultural department of Messrs Reid and Gray's implement works at Dunedin were discharged this week. It appears that previous to the award, which came into force on Monday, the wages paid were Bs. 9s. and 10s per day, while the award provides for a uniform rate of 11s. The firm could not pay the rate awarded, and about a dozen men were discharged. Their discharge necessitated the paying off of seven others. Tho members of the film named said the award affected Oago and Southland only, and provided for a higher rate than was paid in Christchurch, where the rates were 7s and 8s per day, the result being that the firm was unable to compete with manufacturers elsewhere. As stocks are fairly large, it would hav c been necessary, apart from the award, to pay off 6ome of the men.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8540, 21 March 1908, Page 5
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176AN AWARD'S EFFECT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8540, 21 March 1908, Page 5
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