GROCERS’ WAGES.

Wairarapa Age, 7 October 1926, Page 2

GROCERS’ WAGES.

DEMANDS REFERRED TO COURT. AUCKLAND, October 6. Grocers’ wages and the duration of the award were referred to the Arbitration Court this morning. The union claimed £7 a week for managers and branch managers, £6 for senior assistants, and corresponding increases down the scale, 25/ a week being asked for juniors under fifteen. In the previous award, managers and branch managers were not provided for, senior assistants got £4 12/6 a week, and boys under fifteen 15/. In tho proposed new award one provision is unique in New Zealand arbitration agreements. This fixes differing closing hours to meet the requirements of stores doing shipping and rail business, and for country stores who forward supplies by boat or according to the departure of trains. The hearing is proceeding.— (PA.).

A London clergyman has hit on tho idea of giving counsel or advice over the telephone to anyone who desires it The seeker of advice may remain as anonymous as the donor. There is no need for the “client” to Yeveal anything whatever about himself or herself—not even sex. “There are occasions in our lives,” says the author of this novel idea, “when we would give anything for a sympathetic talk with someone who has the time to discuss them, and the experience to give counsel. There are difficulties in finding a confidant in such matters. Our near relatives are frequently the last persons to whom we should resort.” And so this anonymous London rector is to sit at his telephone the whole day long, and will help anyone who rings him up.