WAGES FIXED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20852, 7 October 1937, Page 6

WAGES FIXED

MUSTERERS, PACKERS AND DROVERS By Telegraph--Press. Association WELLINGTON, October -6. A wish that all litigants would adjust their differences in the same reasonable way before arrival at the Council was expressed by the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr M. J. Reardon, at the conclusion of a sitting to-day to confirm an agreement on an application by the New Zealand Industrial Union of Workers for a new Dominion award governing musterers, drovers and snowrakers. The respondents were the New Zealand Sheep Owners’ Industrial Union of Employers. It was agreed that musterers when employed to muster sheep be paid not less than £4/15/- a week if engaged by the week, and not less than £1 a day if engaged by the day. Musterers engaged by the week will receive additional payment for Sunday work. Packers employed in connection with mustering will be paid not less than £3/17/6 a week, or 17/6 a day if engaged by the day, and weekly workers 17/6 additional for any Sunday on which they are required to shift camp. Any musterer or packer required to do snow raking will be paid £l/7/6 a day while engaged in such work. Youths learning mustering are to be paid £l/12/6 a week for the first year, and £2/5/- for the second year, thereafter the full adult wage. The parties agreed that it was impossible to regulate working hours in the Industry, and therefore added an extra amount to the rates provided under the 1931 award. To meet the requirements of the industry in this respect, drovers are to be paid not less than £l/8/- a day (not found), with special rates according to distances. Preference is to be given to unionists.