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Oral Answers to Questions — Agricultural Wages.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 30 July 1925.

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Householders43s.Customary
Not Householders37s. 10½d.Customary
Receiving Board and Lodging.36s.Customary
Essex30050———Per hour 5d.50Male workers employed throughout the Corn Harvest on farms comprising more than 60 acres of corn to be paid the ordinary minimum weekly rates plus a bonus on completion of the Harvest, which in the case of a worker aged 21 years and over is £5 5s. In the case of male workers on such farms not employed fully on Harvest only a proportionate part of the bonus is payable. On farms comprising 60 acres or less of corn male workers are to be paid at special hourly rates for all employment on Harvest, the rate in the case of workers aged 21 years and over being 10id. per hour. Female workers 7½d. per hour for all time.
Gloucester30050Head Shepherds and Stockmen.36s.605d.All time—
Under Shepherds and Stockmen.34s. 6d.57
Head Carters34s. 6d.58
Under Carters32s. 6d.54
Hants and Isle of Wight.30051———5d.All time.9d. per hour for all overtime employment on the Corn Harvest, 1925.
Herefordshire31054Bailiffs, Waggoners, Stockmen and Shepherds.36s.604½d.All time—
Hertfordshire31048———24s. per week.4810d. per hour for all overtime employment of adult male workers and 7½d. per hour for adult female I workers employed on the Hay Harvest, 1925. 10½d. per hour for all employment of adult male workers and 7½d. per hour for adult female workers employed on the Corn Harvest, 1925.