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Otago Witness, Issue 3383, 15 January 1919, Page 37

The representatives of the Kaikorai and Roslyn Tramway Companies, at the conference with representatives of the employees, declined to accept the .rate of wages which the Dunedin Corporation haa agreed to pay the workers on the Mornington line, owned by the Corporation. Mr Hunter, manager of the Kaikorai Company, (said the suggested increase in wages meant an average advance on his lino of 2s 2d per man per day. The companies offered conductors Is 3a to Is 4d per hour, according to length of service, and mptormen and gripmen Is 4d to Is 5d per hour. Mb Knowles, for the Roslyn Company, said th<j increases granted by the Corporation, it adopted by the company, would bring the wages bill up to half their revenue. Ha asserted that the- limited population the line catered for were not able to bear an in* crease in the fares. A great majority os those who travelled on the line were not earning as much as the nresent wage 6 oi tramway employees. Their men averaged £l6O to £220 per annum*