WILL HAVE TO LEVY PENNY EXTRA RATE TO PAY WAGES.
TOWN CLERK REPORTS ON COURT’S AWARD. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 8. “If the same average number of men are to be employed in the corporation service during the year, the increased wages granted by the general labourers’ award will absorb £SOOO, entailing a penny extra rate,” reported the town clerk to the City Council on the Arbitration Court's award of Id an hour extra to labourers employed by a public body. He thought that the Court’s explanation of the discriminatory attitude between private and public employers was bv no means impressive. The question was referred to the Finance Committee Jor full investiga-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18407, 8 March 1928, Page 1
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