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NEW MINIMUM WAGE SCALE UNOFFICIAL INTIMATION By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, January 27. In addressing the men involved in a dispute over the rates of pay at the Mangere aerodrome improvement works, a statement was made by Mr F. E. Lark, secretary of the Auckland Provincial Unemployed Workers’ Association, that while he was in Wellington last week the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple) had promised that within a month an agreement would be reached fixing tho minimum wage for men employed in public works at 14s 8d a day. After Mr Lark’s address and a long conference with the representatives of the Public Works Department, the dispute at the aerodrome was temporarily settled. The men returned to work under protest for a period of one month on Mr Lark’s assurance that Mr Semple fully understood the position, and that a conference was to be called shortly to draft an agreement governing the conditions and rates of pay on public works in the future. The men were informed that the Minister of Employment would visit Auckland at the end of the week, when their case would be presented to him.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20327, 28 January 1936, Page 6
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192PUBLIC WORKS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20327, 28 January 1936, Page 6
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