AUSTRALIAN WAGES
WIDE DIFFERENCES. (Received Wednesday, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Federal Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, at the conclusion of his visit to Sydney, in a speech, said the ridiculous discrepancies between wages and conditions in different States would not work. Wages varied from £3 3s a week, for 48 hours, in South Australia, to £4 2/6 a week, for forty-four hours, in New South Wales. Mr Lyons told a deputation that the Commonwealth financial position made impossible the restoration of invalid and old age pensions to their former level.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1932, Page 5
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