The Agricultural Workers Extension Order (No. 3).

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 57, Issue 2, 20 August 1938, Page 118

The Agricultural Workers Extension Order (No. 3).

THE Agricultural Workers Extension Order (No. 3) 1938 extends the provision of Part 111 of the Agri - cultural Workers Act, 1936, with the necessary modifications and with the further modifications set out in the Order, to agricultural workers employed in market gardens (including market gardens where soft - fruit is produced) situated in ’ the Canterbury Industrial District. The Order came into force on the 27th June, 1938, and will continue

in operation until the 23rd April, 1939, and thereafter until -a,further’Order is made. ■ The Order contains substantially the same terms as the Agricultural j Workers Extension Order (No. 2) 1938, relating to workers employed in market gardens situated in'. the Wellington and Nelson Industrial Districts, a summary of which appeared in the’June issue of the Journal of Agriculture on page 442; ’ Attention is drawn, however, . to a variation in the rates of wages provision.

The Wellington-Nelson ■ Industrial District Order provides that a male adult worker who, at the date of coming into force of that Order, was in receipt of a wage exceeding £4 per week, should on and from that date receive an increase of not less than 2S. 6d. per. week on his then present wage, whereas the Order under notice merely - provides that an adult male worker who, on the date .of coming into force of the Order, receives wages in : excess of £4 per week shall not have his wages reduced. . ' ,