WANGANUI BUTCHERING TRADE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12238, 11 June 1909, Page 5

WANGANUI BUTCHERING TRADE.

AWARD OF CONCILIATION COM-

MISSIONER

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, June 10. The Commissioner for Conciliation, Mr P. Hally, has forwarded to Mr A. Stubbs, Clerk of Awards, a copy of the agreement signecf by the parties connected with the' butchering dispute at Wanganui for embodiment, in the terms of the award by the Court. The agreement affects eleven firms of employers. It provides for, the hours of labour being oB per week, to cease not later than 10 p.m. every Saturday, except" in the case ot pork butchers, when work shall cease at 10.30 p.m. Every employer is to fix a schedule of hours for his employees which shall be submitted for the approval of. the Union. The minimum rate of wage is to be:—First shopman £3 per week, second £2 10s, first small goods.man £2 10s, hawking carters £2 10s fid, general hands £2 10s, order carters (year's engagement) £2 per week,,second £2 ss, third year £2 10s, casual hands 9s 6d per day, Saturday only 11s, boys under sixteen 17s 6d, sixteen and under seventeen £1, seventeen and under eighteen £1 2s 6d, eighteen and under. nineteen 431 ss, nineteen and under twenty £l 7s 6d, twenty and under twenty-one £1 10s, over 21 £1 12s 6d. Provision is made for underrate workmen. The proportion of boys to men employed is not to exceed one boy to every three men or fraction of three men. . All employees who are married men, other than those engaged m a pork butcher's business, shall be allowed meat to an amount not exceeding os per week. The following holidays are to be allowed without stoppage or pay:—New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, birthday of the reigning sovereign, Christmas Day, Boxing Day Anniversary Day, and the day on which the butchers' annual picnic is held. The award is to remain in force for two years.