FRUIT INDUSTRY

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20427, 18 February 1938, Page 8

FRUIT INDUSTRY

CONDITIONS OF WORKERS TERMS OF AGREEMENT (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday. The secretary of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Industrial Union of Employers, Mr E. S. Harrowell, in a statement to-day. said the Minister of Finance, the Hon. \Y. Nash, had announced assistance for fruitgrowers selling on the local market on a similar basis to that operating last year, being 5s 2d per case against 4s 8d a case last year. The Employers’ Union had finalised an agreement under the Agricultural Workers’ Act with the New Zealand Workers’ Union. Subject to tills assistance and the export guarantee already announced the wages payable under the agreement will be: Orchard managers, £4 2s a week; other adult male workers, £3 18; permanent youths, a scale varying from 20s a week to 52s 6d a week, according to age from fifteen years to 21; casual workers, adult males, Is 9d an hour; adult females, is 5d an hour; youths and girls up to 18 years, Is an hour; 18 and over. Is 3d an hour. The conditions of the agreement are in the main the same as those last year. The hours are on a fortnightly basis and special provisions are made for picking sfone fruit in times of urgency. A number of points in the last agreement which were the cause of some misunderstanding have been clarified. The agreement operated as from Monday, February 14.