§ 15. Mr. GRAHAM WHITEasked the Minister of Labour whether any investigation of the earnings and wages of persons engaged in different occupations and industries has been made since the earnings and hours inquiry of 1906; and whether it is his intention to institute a comprehensive inquiry into these important matters?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEADInquiries into average weekly earnings in manufacturing industries generally, and some of the principal other industries, were made in 1924, 1928 and 1931, and similar inquiries, relating to 1935, are now in progress. In these inquiries information has not been obtained as to earnings in particular occupations, but particulars of the time rates of wages fixed by collective agreements, or by statutory orders, for workpeople in the principal industries and occupations are regularly collected by my Department and published in the Ministry of Labour Gazette and the Abstract of Labour Statistics.