INCREASED WAGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 263, 4 October 1940, Page 6

INCREASED WAGES.

CHEESE FACTORY WORKERS

Per Press Association

WELLINGTON, Oct. 3

A granting of 5 per cent, increase in wages to workers in cheese factories engaged in the manufacture of cheese or whey butter is the principal feature of the cheese factories labour legislation suspension order 1940 (No. 2) gazetted to-night. The new order also varies' the scale of wages in respect to workers in certain. small factories, those affected being first and second assistants in four to six-vat factories and youths if they only worked in addition to a manager in two-vat factories. The provisions of the new order are effective from August 4. A recent labour legislation suspension order facilitated the operation of certain clothing trades by waiving the apprenticeship requirements in respect of female workers entering the trade after reaching 21 years provided they received the prescribed rates of wages. A second clothing trade labour suspension order gazetted to-night extends the application of the first order to female workers in the 6hirt, white and silk working, and dressmaking and millinery trades.