SHEARERS’ WAGES.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 13. The nationaL executive of the New Zealand Workers’ Union advise that all workers will accept engagements at the following terms: —Shearers, 20s per hundred with rations, 25s without rations; shed- hands and pressers, . £2 10s per week or Is 6d per hour; all others, £2 5s per week or Is 4d per hour; cooks, 12 men or under, £3 per week; cooks’ assistants, £2 10s. The general secretary explains that these are the rates the union is prepared to accept in agreement with the sheepowners. He says the reasonableness of them is recognised by quite 75 per cent, of the sheepowners wno have already expressed their willingness to pay nothing less than £1 per hundred for shearing. Tho rates proposed by the sheepowners arc, 18s per hundred ; pressers, £2 per week or Is 2d per hour; all others £1 15s per week or Is per hour; cooks, £2 10s; cooks’ assistants, £2.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 270, 14 October 1932, Page 3
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160SHEARERS’ WAGES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 270, 14 October 1932, Page 3
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