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New Zealand Tablet, 3 February 1916, Page 35

About 100 farmers and thrashing mill owners met at Invercargill on Saturday afternoon to consider the rate of pay to be given mill hands this season (says the Southland News). After discussion, it was decided to increase it from Is an hour and. found, to Is 3d an hour and found, this being the wage paid in Canterbury. It was stated that, according to rumour, the mill hands had decided not to accept employment unless they were given the increase which the meeting said they were entitled! to this season owing to the price of grain. Mr. John Deegan, of Oreti, stated that owing to the rise in the value of belting and oil the mill owners had decided on the following rates of pay by farmers:—7s per 100 bushels for oats, 7s per hour for grass seed, and 8s per hour for wheat. In regard to oats, the new rate is Is per 100 bushels more than that ruling last season.