AWARD PROVISIONS
ENGINEERS' HOURS FIXED SHIP REPAIRERS' WAGES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Monday The Arbitration Court to-day issued the northern, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago and Southland industrial districts engineers' award. It provides for a 40-hour week, with time and a-half for the first four hours in excess, and double time thereafter. Ship repair workers' hours are fixed at 44. The hourly wages are as follows: —Toolmakers, 2s 8d; pattern-makers, 2s 7d; first-class tradesmen, 2s 6d; second-class tradesmen, 2s process workers, 2s 2Jd;- moulders, 2s 3d to 2s (3d. Boys and youths' wages range from 17s Gd to 62s 6d a week, and female workers from 17s 6d to 47s 6d.
TRANSPORT DRIVERS SHORTER WORKING WEEK [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Monday The New Zealand Passenger Transport Drivers' Award has been amended, reducing bus drivers' hours from 96 to 80 a fortnight, and providing a maximum of 44 a week, instead of 52. Ser-vice-car drivers' hours are reduced from 96 tc 88 a fortnight, and from 52 to 48 in any one week.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22608, 22 December 1936, Page 10
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