WAGES OF APPRENTICES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 419, 9 June 1922, Page 6

WAGES OF APPRENTICES.

ARBITRATION ('HURT'S ORDER. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN. June S. The Arid!ration Court, in its general order of May IU, provided lor all appreniii.es' wages being reduced by Is 6(1 pot week. This order ha.- now been _ modified by a tm titer order bled to-day, which reads as follows: —“As from May 1 the tot-sil j rates of remuneration of those apprentices whose basic rates are now fixed at 15s, 20s, 265. 20s, and' 40s a week, after their first, second, third, fourth and filth years respectively, shall be decreased by ls_ 6d per week in* those cases only in which the homißC- existing inmicdialcly [trior to May 15. 1922, amomilcd to or exceeded Is 6d, and that in those cases in which the bonuses existing immediately prior to May 15 did not amount to Is 6d, the total rales of remuneration .shall be decreased by such »um only as will reduce the rates ol remuneration to 15-. 20>. 25.-. 30s, and 40s respectively." In a memorandum, the ( onrt says: “Ihe uuest-ion of different rales of bonuses granted to a.ppr, mice.- was brought before the Court id Auckland and Dunedin. The Court’s general rates were increased some time ago to 15s. 20-, 25-, 30s, and 40s per week, and these were intended to be the standard rates granted independently ot the increased cost of living, further cost of living increases were, however, granted in many cases, while in others the increases were not applied tor. In order to adjust Ihe matter equitably, the Court lias decided that apprentices receiving the scale ot rates fixed by the Com! shall not have their wages reduced during, the current sixmonthly period below the basic rates, 1 lie cases of apprentices paid under other scales will be dealt with on individual application's, if necessary, in accordance with the merits of the particular cases.