SHEARING SHED HANDS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1915, Page 3

SHEARING SHED HANDS

RATS® OF PAY. The following rates of pay for sheaj'ing-shed hands have been agreed to by tho N.Z. Sheepi'armers' and Farnuvs' Fo-dw.atfon and the N.Z. Shearers and Wool'shed. Employees' Association, rospeetiveJy:— (a) Pressors and wool-rollers—when engaged by tho woc-k, £1 15s -per week : raid when not engaged by -the week, Js 2d per hour. (I») All :other shed sliamis—when engaged' by the 'week. £1 Jos per \v<\ck; 'and when niet engaged by the week, Is Id per hour. (c) A prossv' may Oik at a piecework rate 't<> lie agrc-ed on with hs omployer, but s<> that ihe shall in any event be paid not iloss than the minimum bonify rate herein specified for r.ho tiin t , actually worked by him. (d) Cooks. £2 pes' week; cooks' assistants. £1 12s Gd pei - week. (e.) Each, worker shall lie provided with ra.t'ons by his cmployo". In any ea-se where it is agreed betiw-n the employer n.ncl th,» worker fh:i-, -the worker si in 11 provide Otis own rations ho shall be paid 1 ">s per week in addition tiul .ra.te hereinbefore specilied.