WATERSIDE WORKERS' RATES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 12768, 10 February 1916, Page 4

WATERSIDE WORKERS' RATES.

* ~ By Telegraph. ?.'" (Special to Oamaru Mail.) Wellington, February 10. The following are some of tbc rates " of pay fixed for tbc ports of Tiraaru and Oamoni by the new industrial acrcement between the Shipowners Federation and the Waterside Workers Federation: Stevedore and general carc«t,'trbrkt Is lid an hoor tor ordinary time.. 2s 6d for overtime up to 10 p.m., 2s 3d for overtime between 10 p.m. and Sld.ni: Superphosphates, and similar cargo (in bulk) 2s 4d, is lid, and 3s 3d, in bags, 2s id, 2s Bd, and 2s lid., explosives, 2s id, 2s Bd, and 2s lid; kerosenu (when ship is loaded with oil only), 2s 3d, 2s lOd. and 3s Id, (when part''of general cargo), 2s Id, 2s Bd, antl 2s lid: foreign coal. 2s, 2s 7d, anil 2s lld;'X.Z. coal, Is lid, 2s Gd, and 2s 9d: frozen meat (men working in.'chambers which- are frozen down). 2jfe 2s lOd, and 3s 2d. ,TJie now rates ronu* into operation at once.. - •