It is said that the wharf labourer if. the principal ports of Now Zealand earns, anything from five shillings to five pounds per week. There arc over n thousand wharf labourers in the Colony, and the nominal pay, Is 3d per hour for ordinary cargo and Is Cd for coal heaving, is apparently ample; but the idle time discounts the wage, and the wharf labourer who makes M 2 a week is a fairly fortunate man. We notice that the N.Z. Times, in its last issue, proposes that the "Wellington Harbour Board should be made responsible tor all wharf employe's earning a living wage; but the suggestion would be a new depauure, which might prove more disastrous to local industries, than even tho Arbitration Act. "We do not suppose that the Wellington Harbour Board will accept a responsibility of this kind, as by so doing it would establish a precedent, which would lead to further I complications in tho labour problem. Tie real remedyis for Uio idle wharf labourer,
who docs not earn a fair livelihood, to sock other employment; and, if necessary, to qualify himself /or it.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7244, 27 August 1902, Page 2
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