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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour, &c.— continued.

Trades. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industrial District. I Tailoring —Tailoresses .. Timework, 8d. per hour ; coat-hands, 25s. and 30s. per week; vest and trouser hands, 21s. to 30s. per week; machinists, 17s. 6d. to 30s. per week; apprentices, four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week Canterbury award applies in this district Journeywomen, 25s. per week ; improvers, 15s. to 20s. per week ; pressers, 50s. to 55s. per week; apprentices, two ye&rs, coat-making, 5s. to 22s. 6d. per week ; vest and trouser making, four years, 5s. to 22s. 6d. per week ; pressors' apprentices, two years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 45 per week See Fellmongering. Journeymen, Is. ljd. per hour ; appren- Journeymen, 9s. per day of eight hours; tices, five years, 5s. to 30s per week. apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per Hours of labour, 48 per week week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Piecework —Plains, 3d. per gross of 144 boxes ; No. 4 tins, Is. per gross ; No. 10 tins, 2s. per gross No 12 cardboard, 6d. per gross; filling frames on machine, 3Jd. per rack of 16 frames, average of 68 boards to the frame. Hours of labour, 45 per week. Canterbury award applies in this district. Tanning .. .. See Fellmongering Tinsmithing and coppersmithing Journeymen, 9s. per day "of eight hours apprentices, six years, 5s. to 32s. 6d per week. Hours of labour, 48 pei week. - Wax-vestas manufacturing • Woollen-milling Minimum rate for wages hands —Woolsorters, 5s. ; wool-scourers, 42s. ; dye-house, teasing, carding hands, 42s. ; spinners, 44s. ; feeders and piecers, 16 to 22 years, 25s. to 42s. ; milling-room, finishing-room, press and stock room hands, 42s. ; tuners, 45s. to 56s. ; warpers, 56s. ; patternweavers, 45s. ; labourers, 42s. ; enginedrivers, 54s. ; firemen, 48s. ; greasers, 42s. ; carpenters, 60s. ; girls, first year 8s., second year lis., third year 14s. ; youths, 14 to 22 years of age, 8s. to 35s. : all at per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week.