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into operation a month must elapse from the date of the publica- 

 tion of the notice of proposal, during which period any objections 

 to the increases may be lodged with the Wages Board for their 

 consideration. 



The Board adopted a report presented by Sir Henry Rew 

 from the Committee on " Allowances " approving recommen- 

 dations by the District Wages Committees for a number of 

 counties for increases in the amounts at which employers may 

 reckon the provision of board and lodging to workers as part 

 payment of minimum rates of wages in lieu of payment in cash 

 in the respective areas concerned. 



It was decided to make Orders bringing into operation special 

 rates of wages for hay and corn harvest work in Cumberland, 

 Westmorland and Shropshire, and for corn harvest alone in 

 Yorkshire. 



The Board decided that no special rates should be fixed for the 

 harvest in Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Dorset, Hampshire and 

 Oxfordshire for the present year. It was also decided that the 

 Order for Corn Harvest in operation for Oxfordshire last year 

 should be cancelled. 



The Board also made an Order, to come into operation on the 

 12th July, fixing revised minimum rates for female workers in 

 Yorkshire : for workers aged 18 and over at lOd. per hour as 

 proposed, together with proportionate rates for girls and for 

 overtime employment. 



An Order was made bringing into operation on the 12th July 

 revised minimum rates of wages for male workers in Cheshire. 

 The effect of the Order is that the mJnimum rates for male 

 workers aged 21 years of age and over in Cheshire are increased 

 in each case by 5s. 6d. per week, with proportionate increases for 

 male workers under the age of 21 and in the overtime rates. 

 The minimum rates for Chesire will be further increased if the 

 Board's general proposal (referred to above) for an all-round 

 increase of 4s. per week in the minimum rates for adult male 

 workers throughout England and Wales is in due course con- 

 firmed as an Order. 



Full particulars of all Orders made by the Agricultural Wages 

 Board are published in the Wages Board Gazette, the yearly 

 subscription for which is 3s. Subscriptions should be sent to 

 the Secretarv, Agricultural Wages Board. 80. Pall "Mall. London, 

 S.W.I. 



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