LABOUR CONDITIONS.
—j 3 NEW SOUTH WALES REPORT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, July 14. The report of the State Labour Department shows that the number of factories in the State at the end of last year was 4219, employing 50,500 malea and 23,942 females,, increases of 254 factories and 3877 employees. . , . Only 6.8 per centum of the employees were under sixteen years of age. The report comments on the fact that "the number of children who find it incumbent to work jn factories is not increasing in comparison with the number of hands employed duriiig .the last five years. The hands employed in the metropolitan faotories increased by 17,087. Working conditions generally had improved, and the expectations of the Department regarding the minimum wage have been largely realised. The report mentions that last year was the best in the history of the building trade in Sydney and suburbs, the amount expended being over five'millions. Altogether two hundred new buildings had been erected in tho city, and five thousand in the suburbs.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 15 July 1910, Page 5
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171LABOUR CONDITIONS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 15 July 1910, Page 5
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