WAGES OF FIREMEN
INCREASES GRANTED CONCILIATION COUNCIL (Pur Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., this day. Increases in the rate of pay and an extra fortnight's leave for •firemen are granted in an agreement reached! yesterday in Conciliation Council proceedings between the Wellington Fire Brigade Employees' Union anil the Palmerston North'Fire Board. Considerable interest attaches to the settlement, as the terms are likely to !*■ treated as a basis for the settlement of disputes affecting fire brigade, conditions in the provincial centres. Hie weekly wages fixed were: probationer firemen, £3 ss; third-class firemen, £3 7s 6d; second-class firemen, .£3 19s txl; first-class firemen, £4 9s 6d ; senior firemen, £4 10s- and firemen mechanics, M 12s 6d. Married men not provided with living Quarters are granted £1 extra weekly and single men 5s extra weekly where' no mess is provided.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 5
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