LABOURERS' WAGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

LABOURERS' WAGES.

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Wellington, June 10

In oo>v."Hji)cnco of the hi.^h prices of commodities arising from the' war; tho .Wellington City Council decided to make a s'>?fiin.l payment to its labourers r.-Tcr and above the aM'ard rates of pay? Aich payment to remain.' iintil a new :iv,-ar;V is;.determined. The rate-of paymont for general labourers has been fixed :Vt ]<s'2fd per hour, the payment for -oiKo>- glasses" of lahoi'vers to be .increasetj in proportion at the same ratio.