EXTENSION OF HOURS.
MINISTER’S STATEMENT.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. Replying to the statement yesterday bv Mr W. H. P. t Barber (chairman of the Wellington ' Woollen Manufacturing Companv), who stated that the Hours Committee of the Emergency Council had refused an extension of five horn’s a week to woollen mill workers, the Minister of Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb), to-day, said that an application was received by him from the secretary of the Woollen Mills’ Association to work nine hours a day on a five-day week at ordinary rates of pay. He understood the application had not been supported by sufficient evidence to enable the committee to vary its previous decision. However, the" association was invited £cg supply the committee with certain specific information so the matter could be further investigated. This had not been forthcoming up to the present. As a result of the Emergency Council’s activities, said Mr Webb, orders had been gazetted extending the hours in munition works, timber mills, shearing sheds, finsmithing and sheet metal work engaged in making equipment in the dairying industry, clothing factories, tanneries, cement, asbestos and roofing works, and cheese factories.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 226, 22 August 1940, Page 9
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