DELIVERY CEASED
HASTINGS BUTCHERS EFFECT OF NEW AWARD Owing to some Hastings butchers curtailing their delivery services housewives are faced with the prospect of a daily walk into the town in the heat of summer to purchase their meat supplies. This situation has arisen out of the new award for butchery employees.
The award provides for a wage increaseJrom £4 lGs to £5 3s Gd for experienced men. Moreover, it also sets down 8 a.m. for the starting time and stipulates ok the half day that those on deliveries must be off the road by noon. If they are not, then they must receive 5s 8d an hour overtime and, in addition, receive compensatory time off.
While one or two butchers declare they can overcome the new conditions others are either curtailing their deliveries to what can be accomplished on bicycles or are abandoning deliveries altogether.
In addition to the increased costs involved in providing the consuming public with a widely utilised service it is stated that the position has been made still difficult by the 8 a.m. start. This means in many cases that orders cannot be got ready until about 10 a.m. or even 10.30 a.m., with the result that the delivery would be too late for the mid-day meal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 2
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212DELIVERY CEASED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 2
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