NEW AWARDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16813, 16 August 1922, Page 7

NEW AWARDS.

WAGES FIXED BY COURT. Awards of the Arbitration Court dealing with Canterbury workers have been filed with the Clerk of Awards in Christchureh. MUSTEREBS’ AND PACKERS’ WAGES. The following wages have been fixed for mnsterers and packers Musterers—When employed to muster sheep for any purpose, £4 a week if engaged by the week, and lOs a day if engaged by the day. musterers engaged by the week to have an additional 16s for any Sunday on which they do any mustering. Packers, when employed in connection with mustering. £3 as a week by the week and 15s a day by the day. Any mustercr or packer engaged at snow-raking must be Raid £1 5s a day while on that work. Youths may be employed to learn mustering at the following rates in addition to board and lodging:— First year £1 Ids a week, second year £2. Other items were embodied in the Conciliation Council’s recommendations. THE MILLINERS. \\ ages of milliners have been fixed as follows:- Apprentices and improvers—First six months JOs Cd a vfeek. second six months 12s 6d. third six months 15s. fourth six months 17s 6d. fifth six months £l, sixth six months £1 2s 6d. seventh six months £l ss, eighth six months £1 10s: in addition, a bonus of 4s 6d a week. Journey wo men—£2 a Aveek. with a bonus of 2s 6d a week. A journeywornan is defined as a worker who has served her time as an apprentice and an improver at any branch of the trade.

The terra of apprenticeship is fixed at three years, and each worker must also serve one year as an improver. The proportion of apprentices is fixed at not exceeding one to one journeywornan or improver. The Court had intended to consolidate that award with the dressmakers’ award, but- owing to the possibility of confusion between the two lists of workers, it decided to make two separate awar is, and leave the parties to apply for a consolidated award when the matter com«-s up again before the Court. SHIRT. WHITE AND SILK WORKERS. The Court has converted into an award recommendations of the Conciliation Council dealing with wages and conditions for shirt, white and silk workers, agreed to both parties.