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Sawmilling .. .. Head - men at saw-benches, 8s. 4d. to 8s. 6d. ; tail-men, 7s. 6d.; head-men at drag-benches, 7s. 6d. to 8s. tail-men, 7s. to 7s. 6d. ; head-men at recutter saws, 8s. ; tail-men, 7s. 6d. ; men in charge of jigger-saws, 8s. 4d.; log- j getters, 7s. 6d. ; horse-drivers, 8t engine-drivers, 8s. 6d. to 9s. ; head mill - carpenters, 10s , second, 9s. ; machine- men 7s. to 9s. ; engineers and fitter , 9s. ; head-men on band-mills, 9s. ; 'others, 7s. Od. to 8s. : all per day of eight hours. Hours of labour, 47 per week Shipbuilding, boilermaking, Shipwrights, Is. 3d. per hour; boatiron- bridge building builder , Is. 2d. per hour ; apprent ces, liv. .i 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week First-class boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per hour; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour; boilermakers' assistants, Is. ljd. per hour; apprent ces, six years, 8s. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week Slaughtering .. Auckland (for export), same as Poverty Bay (under Meat-freezing). Auckland (for local consumption): Sheep and lambs, 23s. to 25s. per 100 ; rams, 5d. per head ; bullocks 2s. each ; pigs, Is. to Is. 6d. each ; calves, Is. to Is. 6d. each ; gutmen, 45s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Soap-boiling .. See Fellmongers, &o. Stone-crushing and quarry- Quarrymen, spallers, feeders, truckers, ing and fillers, 11 Jd. per hour ; men squaring stone to measurement, Is. ljd. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week Sugar-refining .. .. Firemen, 54s. ; trimmers, 42s. ; liquorrunners, 54s. ; char-emptiers and levellers, 48s. ; pan-men, 60s. ; centrifugal driers, 48s. ; centrifugal scoopers, 45s. ; packing-store, 45s. to 48s. ; labourers, 42s. ; boys, 16 to 21 years, 12s. 6d. to 30s. : all per week of 48 hours. 1 Benchmen, Is. 2d. to Is. 3d per hour; First sawyers, 9s. per day; second Breast sawyers, 9s. to- 10s. 6d. ; big-bench breakdown-men, Is. 2d. to Is. 3d. per sawyers, 8s. per day ; tailers-out, 7s. saywers, 9s. to 9s. 6d. ; tailers-out, hour; tailer-out, Is. 2d. per hour; per day ; engine-drivers, 9s. and 10s. 8s. to 9s. ; machinists, 8s. to 10s. ; machinists, Is. 2Jd. to Is. 4d. per hour ; per day ; first-class machmists, 10s. engine-drivers, 8s. to 10s. ; bushmen, yardmen, Is. 2d. per hour to 60s. per per day ; second - class, 9s. per day ; shoe-men, and log-trolly men, 9s. ; week ; crosscutters, Is. Id. to Is. 2d. head yardman 10s., others 7s. per labourers, 7s. Od.— all per day of eight per hour; other labourers, Is. to Is. Id. day; casual labour, Is. per hour; hours; head yardmen £10 10s., bulper liour; nightwatchman (charge of youths, 12s. 6d. to 30s. per week lock-drivers £10, per calendar month, one mill), 45s. per week ; engine- Hours of labour, 45 per week Hours of labour, 48 per week. drivers, 9s. to 10s. per day; fireman or driver with certificate, 8s. per day ; boxmakers, Is. Id. per hour; youths, 15s. to 35s. per week according to age. Hours of labour, 46 per week First-class boilermakers, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; First-class boilermakers, Is. 4jd. per hour ; ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per ordinary boilermakers, Is. 3d. per hour; hour; other workers, Is. per hour; riveting, caulking, punching, plating, apprentices, live years, 8s. to 25s. per and repairing, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprenweek. Hours of labour, 48 per week tices, five years, 8s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. All sheep and lambs, 23s. per 100 ; rams, Slaughtermen (Christchurch abattoirs) — 5d. each ; cattle, 2s. each ; pigs, Is. Rate of wages £3 5s. per week ; casual each; calves, Is. each. Hours of slaughtermen to be paid at the rate of labour, 48 per week 15s. per day of eight hours. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Slaughtermen's assistants —Rate of wages 7s. Od. per day ; boys and youths, 12s. to 35s. per week according to age. Hours of labour, 48 per week. All quarrymen, minimum of Is. per hour ; men squaring stone, Is. 3d. per hour ; youths, 17 to 21 years, 15s. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 46 per week. " Tailoring —Tailors .. Minimum wage to journeymen, in eluding pressers (pieceworkers as per log), 50s. per week; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Minimum wage to journeymen, 55s. per Minimum wage, journeymen and pressers, Minimum wage, journe3inen, 55s. per week; pieceworkers as per log; ap- 55s. per week; pieceworkers, mini- week; pieceworkers, Is. per hour and prentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per mum wages —males Is., females, 8d., as per log; apprentices, five years, 5s, week. Hours of labour, 48 per week per hour, and as per log ; apprentices, to 25s. per week. Hour; of labour, 48 male, five years, 5s. to 30s., female, per week. four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week