WAGES FOR ENGINEERS.
MEETING AT OffiNEMURI. [BY TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.] .. WAIHI, Friday. The members of the Ohinemuri branch of the Amalgamated Socioty of Engineers held a stop-work meeting at mid-day to-day to consider the question of wages as fixed recently by an Arbitration Court Award, filed on February 25. In a memorandum tho court now states that the wages had been brought into line with the rate paid in other parts of the Dominion for the same class of workers in tho engineering trstfe, but it had failed to take into consideration the fact that the time worked at Ohinemuri was 45 hours weekly, instead of 47, as is customary in the engineering trade. In order to remedy the defect, the court made an amendment | to tho effect that the workers concerned j should receive, with the war bonus, Is 8d I per hour. The meeting reached nothing i definite, but it is understood that tho matter will bo further discussed to-morrow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 8
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