BUSH SAWMILLS AWARD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 7

BUSH SAWMILLS AWARD.

(Per Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, this day

After two days' sitting the Conciliation Council . fixed an award for the Taranaki timber workers, the first award to be made m the district for bush sawmills. The minimum wages at ordinary rates for not more than 94 hours a fortnight- are for bush mills — head henchman, who/ keeps saws, Is 6d per hour; benchman, who does not keep saws ls, 3d per hour ; first breakdown Is 5d per hour ; second, breakdown man ls 2d per hour; tailerout Is 2d per hour ; head yardman (per week) £3 ss ; crosscutter, keeping saws, ls 4d £er hour; other crosscutter Is 3d per hour; bullock drivers Is 3d* per hour; first rope man ls 3d por hour ; second ropeman ls 3d per hour ; jack-man ls 3d per hour; all' other laborers, including casual, Is 3d. per hour 5 nightwatchman (per week) £2 12s £d. The hours of work m town mills, yards, and factories are not to exceed 47 hours per week. Hours shall be from 7.30 to noon and from 1 to .5 '-p.m. during the first five days of the week, and 7.30 to noon on Saturdays, except that during the months of May, June, and July, the hours may be from 7.30 to noon, and from 12.40 to 4.40 p.m. The hours may be adjusted by arrangement with the union to suit varying conditions, provided that not more than 'eight hours and a' half be worked m any one day between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and not more than 47 hours m one week. There are other usual conditions as to preference and under-rate workers.