WAGES FOR WASHING DISHES
WAIOURU MILITARY CAMP SIX POUNDS A WEEK IN SOME CASES Criticism of the high wages paid to young men washing dishes at the Waiouru Military Camp was voiced by Mr. V. Smith at a meeting ot farmers held at Taihape on Tuesday evening to discuss the farm labour problem. Mr. Smith said that some boys were getting as much as £6 a week for washing dishes, and he inferred that it would be difficult to get young men to go on to farms when there were high wages offering for jobs of the
kind mentioned. If the farm labour problem was run on common-sense lines then the farmers would help. He did not think that single men on relief works should receive as much as £4 a week.
Mi. J. Russell, State Employment Officer at Taihape, pointed out that the high wages referred to by Mr. Smith were paid by private contractors and not by the Government. Another person present remarked that the boys at the Waiouru camp who acted as mess orderlies worked as many as 70 hours a week and were not overpaid at 16 a week considering the long hours they worked. (Own correspondent.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 37, 13 February 1941, Page 4
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