£44 A WEEK FOR JOURNEYMAN
INQUIRY BY GOVERNMENT
(Special) WELLINGTON, June 12. An assurance that an immediate investigation would be made into the report that weekly wages ranging from £9 for an apprentice to £44 for a journeyman were paid in a foundry in Auckland during high pressure work on minesweepers was given to the House of Representatives today by the acting Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash. The Minister’s attention to . the evidence on hours and wages given before the Armed Forces Appeal Board in Auckland was drawn by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (Nat., Ricarton), who asked if the Government intended to take action to ascertain the facts. The question was treated as an urgent one. Mr Nash replied that the hours and wages in industry were determined by awards of the Arbitration Court and no one had any right to claim more than was determined by such awards.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19410613.2.32
Bibliographic details
Southland Times, Issue 24460, 13 June 1941, Page 4
Word Count
151£44 A WEEK FOR JOURNEYMAN Southland Times, Issue 24460, 13 June 1941, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in