§ 5. Mr. PERRYasked the Minister of Labour if he will state the alterations in percentages in salaries, wages, and hours in the motor industry during the two years ended 31st July, 1931; and how many agreements have been established under which provision is made that, when dividends on ordinary shares reach 100 per cent., reductions of salaries or wages previously made shall be restored or an increase on existing rates conceded?
§ Sir H. BETTERTONI have no information as to salaries in this industry, but particulars of certain revisions, operative as from 6th July last, in rates of pay for workpeople on overtime, nightshifts, and systems of payment by results, were given on page 255 of the "Ministry of Labour Gazette" for July. No other general changes in rates of wages, and no changes in normal weekly hours of labour, have been reported to the Ministry of Labour since July, 1929. As regards the last part of the question, I have no knowledge of any such agreements.