MARINE ENGINEERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 16 May 1916, Page 5

MARINE ENGINEERS.

SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE.

INCREASES IN WAGES

An agreement arrived at between the Auckland District and Australasian Institution of Marine Engineers and the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., was before the conciliation commissioner, Mr. T. Harle Giles, yesterday morning. Mr. A. B. J. Irvine represented the company and Mr. S. D. Hanna appeared for the engineers. The commissioner read over the agreement arrived at, and, in order to have it made an award of the Arbitration Court, the final clause fixing the duration of the agreement had to be left unsettled.

The new award will provide for an allround increase in wages and victualling allowance and some minor alterations. The increase represents approximately a rise of 15 per cent. The victualling allowance is fixed at lis per day for chief engineers, and 7s for other engineers, as against 7s and 5s respectively in the old award. Provision is also made that the new award shall apply to steamers in which articles are taken out of New Zealand or Australia, and passenger or cargo steamers carrying Australian .articles in the transpacific or South Pacific Island freights, with the following exceptions:—Waikawa, Waimarino, and Waikino, or such vessels as may be substituted for them. Steamers running in the Australian-South Pacific Island trade, making a port of call in New Zealand, shall also come under the provisions of the new award.