SHEARERS’ WAGES.
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. July 28. Substantial increases have been made in the rates of pay of New Zealand shearers and shed hands for the next season. The rates are ns follow, those for last year being in brackets:— Machine shearing, not less than 34s a hundred with rations (last year 275). Shearing by hand, 36s 6d (29s 6d). Where shearers find themselves in rations an allowance of 4s a day. Stud sheep and hogget rains, rate and a-half, and for other rams double the ordinary rates. Shed hands and pressers £5 Is a week (£4) ; by the hour, 2s 9d (2s 2d). All other shed hands £4 11s a week (£3 10s); by .the hour 2s 7d (2s). Cooks, twelve men or under, £5 11s a week (£4 10s); per day £1 Is (17s 6d).
For over twelve men the wage will be increased 2s 6d n week for each additional man, and for over eighteen an assistant shall be employed at the rate of £4 16s (£3 15s) or 17s 4d a day (15s). All rates are subject to the same adjustment conditions as last season.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 2
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192SHEARERS’ WAGES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 2
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