RESTUARANT KEEPERS DISSATISFIED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2497, 10 May 1909, Page 5

RESTUARANT KEEPERS DISSATISFIED.

THE COOKS AND WAITRESSES’

iTNION

(Per Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, May 8. Several proprietors of restaurants and tea rooms to-day. expressed to a reporter of the “Otago Daily Times, their great dissatisfaction with tncl Arbitration Court’s award affecting tho wages of their employees. . Mr. Scott, secretary of the Employers’ Association, alleges that the award of the Court .in Wellington was on a high scale, because of the supmeness of employers there, who allowed the case to go by default. One large employer averred that the award involved him m an additional expenditure of £350 a year, and it was impossible to recoup himself as a manufacturer could by increasing the price of his goods. , . .. Other employers expressed similar Views, but recognised that nothing could be' done for twelve months, when the award expires.

THE EFFECT OF RAISING WAGES

CHRISTCHURCH ,May 8. Recently the Arbitration Court made an award prescribing certain increases in the' wages of persons employed in tea rooms and restaurants. The proprietors are taking tho change seriously and in more than one case the prices of meals and refreshments are to bo raised. One well-known restaurant in the city which has made a groat feature of a shilling lunch announces to its customers that the price will be Is 6d from Monday next, owing -to the new award.