From:Mokau Museum

Name/TitleBook, Wage Book

About this objectThis booklet is a wage booklet or receipt book for unemployment-relief tax. The cover is brown with red writing, and reads : "WHITCOMBE'S "NEW HANDY" RECEPT BOOK / FOR / UNEMPLOYMENT-RELIEF TAX (NEW EDITION) / Re order No. 72 PRINTED BY WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LIMITED 1/-" The inside pages all contain the same identical table. Columns of table are titled (respectively): "NAME OF EMPLOYEE", "DATE From/To", "WORK ENGAGED UPON", "FULL WAGES", TAX DEDUCTION", "NET WAGES", "STAMP, SIGNATURE AND DATE (Employee to sign over stamp). Booklet has been almost totally completed except for last three pages. Contains black ink, pencil, and features a number of New Zealand stamps of different values and colours (including red 1D stamp, blue 1 pound stamp, red 2s stamp, green 5D stamp, brown 6D, yellow 2/- stamp, blue 6D stamp. Sitting loose inside booklet are two single-page documents: an advertisement for State Insurance (featuring dates 1905 and 1955), and a Table for Computation of Change (with blue pen scrawl written across the bottom)

MakerWhitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Maker RolePublic Accountant

Medium and MaterialsPaper, cardboard

Measurements142 x 230 x 12 mm

Object TypeBooklets

Object number2020.012

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