§ Mr. MOSESasked the Minister of Transport the rate of wages being paid in the county of Cornwall, and the number of hours worked on road and other schemes for which grants have been made from the Road Fund and the Unemployment Grants Committee; and, in view of the fact that these rates are insufficient for married men transferred from distressed areas, will he call upon the authority concerned to pay a higher rate?
§ Mr. LAWSONI have been asked to reply. I have no record of the actual wages paid or hours worked, but it is one of the conditions of grant, wherever the work is let out to contract, that the Fair Wages Clause shall be applied. Where the work is done by direct labour, the rate of wages is governed by the authority's rate to its own workmen on similar classes of work, or the recognised district rate if that is lower.