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Table 5.—Schedule of the Rates of Wages and the Hours of Labour in Factories and Shops in the Four Chief Industrial Districts fixed by Industrial Agreements and by Awards of the Court of Arbitration, in Force on the 31st March, 1912.

Trades. Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland Industria Otago and Southland Industrial District. "I I Aerated-water and cordial Foreman, 55s. and 60s. ; cordial-makers, 1 manufacturing 55s. and 00s. ; machine bottlers, 50s. ; | packers and wirers, 45s. ; bottlers, bottle-washers, and general labourers, 42s. per week (44 to 49 hours); youths, 10s. to 35s. Bacon-curing .. .. See Butchers' small-goods manufacturing Foremen and cordial-makers, 60s. ; machine bottlers and beer-bottlers, 50s. ; bottle-washers, 42s. ; casual labour, Is. per hour; youths, 14 to 21 years, 10s. to 35s. per week ; improvers at machine bottling, first three months, 35s. per week ; second three months, 45s. per week. Hours of labour — summer. 49 per week : winter, 44 per week Head curer, 60s. per week ; slaughtermen, cutters-up, and rollers, Is. 2Jd. per hour; soalders, Is. 1 Jd. per hour; cellarmen, lard - makers, and storehands, Is. 0|d. per hour ; other workers, Is. per hour; boys arid youths, 14 to 20 years, 12s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Journeymen, Is. 2d. per hour per week of 44 hours; apprentices, 5 years, 5s. to 30s. I Basketware, rattan, and j Journeymen rattan and wicker workers, j wicker-work manufacturing ! Is. 2d. per hour ; improvers, 35s. per week : apprentices, four years, 5s. to 20s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week Blacksmithing and farriery Farriers and general smiths, 10s. per day 1 Farriers and general smiths, Is. 4d. per floormen, 8s. 4d. per day ; apprentices, hour; floormen, Is. 1 Jd. per hour ; apfive years, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week; prentices, five years, 10s. to 32s. 6d. per piecework, shoe-turning only, 3s. per week. Hours of labour, 46 per week, dozen for heeled shoes, 2s. 6d. per Wellington Country Award. —Farriers and dozen for plain shoes. Hours of general smiths, Is. 3d. per hour; floorlabour, 47 per week men, Is. Ofd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 7s. 6d. to 40s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Boatbuilding .. . . Shipwrights, Is. 4d. per hour; boat- I builders, Is. 3d. per hour ; shipwrights 1 on repair work, Is. 4jd. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of work, 47 per week Boilermaking .. .. See Shipbuilding, &c. .. .. See Shipbuilding, &e. Bookbinding .. . . Journeymen binders and paper-rulers, Journeymen, 60s. per week; casual 60s. per week ; cutters, 30s. to 55s. ; labour, Is. 4|d. per hour ; apprentices, casual labour, Is. 4Jd. per hour; six years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours apprentices, six years, 10s. to 30s. per of labour, 48 per week week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Bootmaking (male opera- Outside clickers, makers, finishers, out- Same as in Northern District.. tives) sole cutters, and machine operators, j Is. OJd. per hour; rough-stuff cutters and others, Is. per hour. Apprentices : Clicking department, six years, 7s. 6d. to 35s. per week; making and finishing, six years, 5s. to 30s. per week; rough-stuff department, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Hours of labour, . 48 per week See Shipbuilding, &c. .. .. See Shipbuilding, &c. Journeymen, 60s. per week; Is. 4|d. per hour for casual labour; apprentices, six years, 10s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Same as in Northern District.. - .. Same as in Northern District.