44-hour Week for Six Months

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 190, 13 August 1936, Page 6

44-hour Week for Six Months

DAIRY MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. Last Night. Seasonal relief from the 40-hour week restriction to enable them to cope with rush orders for dairy machinery and utensils was granted to Alexander Harvey and Sons, Limited, and Hardley’s Limited, both of Auckland, oy the Arbitration Court from May to October. The 44-hour week will be permitted those branches of the companies’ business engaged in the manufacture of dairy plant. In the remaining mouths of the year there is to be a 40-hour week and work on Saturdays will be permitted. In their application fir relief the companies tendered evidence that during six months of the year they were subject to an enormous pressure of work and even with the present hours, 41 a week, they had to work a large amount of overtime. Prompt delivery of dairy plant was essential. The final paragraph of the judgment states: “While realising the difficulties with which these employers are faced in this branch of their industry wo look to them to make special efforts in future years to have this seasonal trade spread more evenly over the year. They must understand that the extension of hours now given may not be renewed.”