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Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 293, 11 October 1922, Page 2

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On Friday the Arbitration Cj timated that, i n its judgia ei workers were receiving too •wages, and it ordered that U .shall be sliced from the wretch received . by. adult, adult females, and 1/- fro children. To allay any sense of injustj ( might feel the Court served, following logic: — "The Court, in pursuance dffi visions of the Industrial Con e and Arbitration Amendment Act 22, has investigated the movej the cost of living between \\ monthly period ended 31st 1925, and the six-monthly perij ed 30th September, 1922.

j "Our Investigation has cove whole field of the cost""of livjj ; items comprising the different and" sub-groups, the weighty ted to each item, sub-group J method of-treatment were tM as for the'former investigate were described -in detail in o noimeenient of-.the sth of Aprj ALL IN THE WORKERS' FA As on other occasions, the has "worked on the principlt six-monthly moving averagethe average increase or deer( the cost of living for the p months is taken as the irtdei increase or rediiction in wages ensuing , six months. As ha pointed out in the past, this operates somewhat against tfc ors on a rising market, but is favour on a falling market, former case their wages keep behind the increasing cost c! though this is. usually of greater regularity of ■emp] more overtime, and a tendei the part of the employers to pi than award wages to a large centage of their employes; ifl the latter case they start IIM year with wages some poiii of the current cost of living,B advantage increases month b;l TASTY STATISTICS,! "With the exception of renfl groups and sub-groups slioqß crease from the figures of ilifi ing half year. Crockery hfl list with c> drop of 16.72 nsw[ lowed closely by gery with 15.06 per cent, ifl light fallen by 11.55 B furnishings by (i.S-l per ceifl ing and drapery by 6.74 perfl by 3.07 per cent., -footwearß per cent., newspapers and pB by 2.20 per cent., and train fl fares by 0.33 per cent, ml an increase:of 2.06 per cenß each group and sub-group i» weighting, we find thai allß combined show a decrease oß' cent, for the six months, (fl with the Jul-y:, 1014, erage figures for the past siß , are slightly- under GO per am the standard, as against 678 for the preceding , half-year, ■ ANOTHER 3/- GOM.J "•Measured in wages, tli? I living has fallen during , theß year to an'extent that wouß' ; the adult male wage by 35.8 If the principle adopted ioßwage rovisious is loiiowedrlß; spending reductions for adul'B ,: and juniors ore Is. Gd. aae week I

"This pronouncement is n» ment or order of the Cou ri simply a statement of the 1 in the cost of living , as re P rt wages. We will hold a si Wellington during- November, we will hear the represent! the employers and tlie v they desire to be heard, in the other considerations tl) weigh with the Court in * whether wages are to be red if so\ by what amount. Tl the sitting 1 will be announce as we are in a position to_ the approximate duration of coming Auckland session-'