S.I. No. 228/1937 - Agricultural Wages (Minimum Rates) Order, 1937.

1. Board or board and lodging: per day .. .. ..

Breakfast: per day .. ..

Dinner: per day

Supper: per day .. ..

£

s.

1

d.

11

6½

10

6½

£

s.

1

d.

7

5½

8

5½

2. Cottage: Without a garden, or with a garden not exceeding one statute rood: per week .. .. ..

2

0

2

0

3. Land for potatoes or roots, per statute rood: per week Land for potatoes or roots, when cultivated, tilled, manured, seeded, and crop lifted by employer, per statute rood: per week ..

1

2½

6

1

2½

6

4. Fresh milk

1st May to 31st October: per gallon .. .. ..

1st November to 30th

April: per gallon ..

1

8

0

1

8

0

5. Grass of cow: 1st May to 30th November: per week .. ..

1st December to 30

th

April: per week .. ..

2

1

0

0

2

1

0

0

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Agricultural Wages Board this 9th day of August, 1937.

The Seal of the Board was affixed in the presence of

WILLIAM O'LEARY,

Chairman of the Board.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1937. No. 228.

AGRICULTURAL WAGES (MINIMUM RATES) ORDER, 1937.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of

Section 17

of the

Agricultural Wages Act, 1936

(No. 53 of 1936), that subject to the provisions of that section the Agricultural Wages Board shall, as soon as may be after the commencement of that Act and thereafter from time to time as they think proper, by order fix, in respect of each wages district, the minimum rates of wages for agricultural workers for time work

AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by subsection (1) of Section 3 and subsection (1) of Section 4 of the said Act, the Minister for Agriculture made an Order dated the 7th day of April, 1937, and entitled the Agricultural Wages Districts and Areas Order, 1937 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 75 of 1937), whereby Saorstát Éireann was divided into agricultural wages districts and the said districts were grouped into agricultural wages areas for the purposes of the said Act

AND WHEREAS by virtue of the

Agricultural Wages Act, 1936

(Commencement) Order, 1937 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 82 of 1937), the said Act came into operation on the 22nd day of April, 1937

AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of the provisions contained in subsection (6) of the said Section 17, the Agricultural Wages Board served notice of their intention to make this Order on the committees for each of the several agricultural wages areas which include the wages districts to which this Order is intended to relate, and two months have elapsed since the date of such service

NOW, the Agricultural Wages Board, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by

Section 17

of the

Agricultural Wages Act, 1936

(No. 53 of 1936), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—