FORTY-HOUR WEEK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 177, 27 June 1936, Page 8

FORTY-HOUR WEEK.

REDUCED INCIDENCE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 26. The total of local body taxation for the financial yenr ended March 31. 1934, reached £6,042,033, according to figures made available by the Government Statistician (Mr J. YV. Butcher). This reveals a small increase of £11,556 over the figure for the previous financial year, but as a result of a slight rise in population the rate per head of population has dropped from "-.£3 ,18s 3d in 1933-34 to £3 17s lOd in-1'934-35. A comparison lietween receipts from local body taxation for 1933434 and 1934-35 is given, in tlle following table : 1933- Rates, £5,541,255; licenses, and other taxes, £489,224; total, £6.030,479. 1934- Rates,' £5,511.442; licenses and other taxes, £530,501; total, £6,042,033. •-- In the latest figures available, the total receipts from rates are made up as follow:—General rates. £2,461,161; other rates, £3,050.281.

» The peak of local body taxation, according to the official figures, was in 1930, when there was a total yield of £G.54G,796 at a rate per head of population of £4 8s 7d. Following that there were gradual reductions both in the total yield, and the per capita rate during tlie depression rears, although there was an increase in the yield in 1934 which has been maintained in the official figures for 1934-35.

AGREEMENT REACHED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 26. The Arbitration Court to-day heard an application liv the Dunedin Brewery and the Wilson Malt Extract Coy., Ltd., for exemption from the 40-hour week as the work was continuous and required six days’ attention. The employers ultimately agreed to accept the 40-hour week, an arrangement being made between the parties to spread the hours over the six days.