BUTCHERS’ HOURS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 186, 7 August 1936, Page 8

BUTCHERS’ HOURS

i ■ •- J COURT FIXES 44 WEEKLY | - PERISHABLE COMMODITY ” : CARPENTERS AND JOINERS’ OVERTIME (Per Pi-pss Association] ; WELLINGTON, Aug. 6. I The maximum number of hours, exelusive of overtime. Io be worked ir [any week in butchers’ shops in Wei ilington. Canterbury, Dunedin, anc Oamaru has been fixed at 44. The -(Court, of Arbitration, in a reservec - I.judgment, holds that it is impractic i table to carry on the industry efficient ? |ly on a 40-hour week. ■ I “The general considerations applic "lable to retail shops detailed in the i [judgment in the grocers’ case appb i | also to the butchers,” said Mr Justici ' Page, “and having regard to th< r [highly perishable nature of the com modity they handle there are in tin * lease of the butchers stronger reason the reduction of hours an< 1 'against the closing of butchers’ shop [on Saturday.” * i The hearing of the dispute betweei [the New Zealand Amalgamated So s jciety of Carpenters and Joiners am s I Joiners Machinists’ Industrial Asso ciation of Workers and the New Zea land Federated Builders and Con e tractors’ Industrial Association o Employers and other employers wa > commenced in the Conciliation Conn cil to-day. When the Council ad ? journed in the afternoon there wa still no agreement on hours am wages. A number of lesser points . however, had been settled. Overtirm j was to be paid at one and a-hal i times the daily rate for lhe first fou 9 hours and thereafter double. Doubl rates were to he paid for wori; oi . Saturday afternoon. Sunday. Nev Year’s Day, Good Friday. Boxing Da; o and Christmas Day. Faster Saturda; and Monday, and Labour Day. Nworker was to do more than five con secutive hours’ work without a mea interval. The employers agreed (< 4 restrict overtime and employ extr; men if there were available any unioi , members out of work, and the unioi undertook on request to supply an; available labour. The hearing wil ? be continued to-morrow morning. e n CAPTAIN SURPRISED i. 5 BROUGH’S VERSION. e |Per Press Associaf’on] AUCKLAND, Aug. 6. J. Brough, captain of the Englisl g team, expressed surprise that then the game at Huntly. He said tha h '. been comment on rough play ir > the match was one of the cleanest o e the tour. It was unfortunate that in 7 juries were suffered by English play ! ers. but that was liable to happen ir -j any game of football. With regard t< e the ordering off of Hodgson, nobodj was more surprised than the opposing » players. He asked the referee whj Hodgson was sent off. The referei replied that he saw Hodgson strike i r player. When questioned who wa: I the player Hodgson struck nobodj e seemed to know. t “I asked the referee to reverse hi: 1 decision. We are here to give a goo< i display of football and we already y then had two players off the fielc injured. We are here t« play foot e ball, win or lose,” he concluded.