State Aid on Local Fruit Market

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 42, 19 February 1938, Page 8

State Aid on Local Fruit Market

5/2 A CASE THIS YEAR WELLINGTON, Feb. 18. The secretary of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Industrial Union of Employers, Mr E. S. Harrowell, in a statement to-day, said that the Minister of Finance, the Hon. Walter Nash, had announced assistance for fruitgrowers selling on the local market on a basis similar to that operating last year, the basis being 5/2 per case, against 4/8 a case last year. The Employers’ Union had completed an agreement under the Agricultural Workers Act with the New Zealand Workers' Union subject to this assistance and the export guarantee already announced. The wages payable under the agreement will be:—Orchard managers, £' 2/ h ■week; other adult made worker: £3 18/-; permanent youths, scale vary ing from 20/- a week to 52/6 a week according to age, from 15 years to 21. casual workers, adult males 1/9 an hour, adult females 1/5 an hour, youths and girls up to 18 years 1/- an hour, If and over 1/3 an hour. The conditions of the agreement arc in the main the same as last year’s. The hours are on a fortnightly basis, and special provisions are made for the picking of stone fruit in times ti urgency. A number of points in the last agreement which were the cause of some misunderstanding have been clarified. The agreement operates as from Monday, February 14.