AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL
WAGES OF LABOURERS TEN PER CENT. CUT RESTORED. O’er United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 17. By 11 votes to 9 the City Council passed a motion to restore the 10 per cent, cut in the wages of employees working under the local bodies’ labourers’ award. The council then decided on the casting vote of the Mayor (Mr G. \V. Hutchison) that the Finance Committee should investigate the financial position, and report upon the possibility of taking action during the remainder of the financial year.
The Mayor had appealed to the mover of the first motion to withdraw it because the council had already budgeted for the year, and had decided that it was preferable to pay smaller wages to more men than to dismiss some and pay full wages to the remainder, ’ The mover of the motion, while recognising the Mayor ns sympathetic to wage raising, declined to withdraw his motion. On the second division, the Independent Labour member (Mr Bloodworth) voted against the official Labour section on the ground that the decision would affect, other employees besides the men under the award.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22114, 18 November 1933, Page 11
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