ARBITRATION COURT
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] CjiristchurcHj Tuesday. The country printers' award provides a week's work of 48 hours, regulated accord- ! ing to requirements, the men not to work | for a longer period than thirteen hours in j 24. Sunday, Christmas Bay, and Gooc Friday work to be paid double; holidays, | time and a-half extra. Sundays not t< | apply to morning newspapers. Wages ir ' the town of Ashburton to be:—Jobbing ' | hands exclusively, £2 10s; bill, jobbing 1 j and newspaper work, £2 ss. In all othei • | towns, except Timaru, not in award, £< | J 2s weekly for journeymen machine hands ; j and other machine hands £2 2s for firsi ' six months after the award, and for th< [ 1 second six months £2 10s, and after thai lj £2 15s. Piecework and hand-setting, 1: ;I a thousand. The nuinbei of girls _anc ; j youths who can be employed is not limited >1 whether apprentices or not. he wages j are fixed, when not apprenticed: Girts, > I from 5s to 30s. and youths from 5s to 30s, 1 Apprentices can be taken on probation! ' wages to be from 5s to 30s. i =====
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12281, 27 May 1903, Page 3
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