GROCERS' AWARD
BIGGER WAGES SOUGHT A NOVEL PROVISION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Grocers’ wages and the duration of the award were referred to in the Arbitration Court this morning. The union claimed £7 a week for managers and branch managers, £<i for senior assistants, and corresponding increases down the scale to 25s being asked for juniors under 15. In the previous award managers and branch managers wore not provided for. Senior assistants got £1 .12s fid, ami boys under fifteen 15s. In the proposed new award one provision is unique in New Zealand arbitration agreements. This fixes different closing hours to meet the requirements of stores doing ' shipping and rail business, and for country stores who forward supplies by boat according to the state of the tide, or by rail, according to the departure of trains. The hearing is proceeding.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 7
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