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Engineering Fellmongering, tanning, &c. Fitters, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, turners, pattern-makers, motor mechanics, millwrights, milling-machinists, and toolmakers, Is. 4Jd. per hour ; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 25s. per week. Special provisions as to Union Steamship Company and United Repairing Company —minimum wage to commence at Is. 3d. per hour and to be increased up to Is. 6d. according to merits of tradesman : hours of labour, 8 per day. Iron and brass moulders (including plate-moulders, steel-work-ers, and coremakers), Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 30s. per week : hours of labour, 47 per week Boilermakers, see Shipbuilding, &c. Wool-classers (greasy), Is. 3d. per hour ; pullers, curers, pelt-fleshers, skinclassers, scudders, and painters, Is. per hour; head tanner, Is. IJd. per hour; head rollerman, Is. per hour ; chrome-workers, grainers, and machine shavers, Is. OJd. per hour; soap, starch, candle, and oil workers, lid. per hour (if worked not less than six months at trade); night-watchman, 50s. per week of seven shifts of 11 hours each; general labourers and casual hands, lOJd. per hour ; youths, 12s. 6d. to 17s. 6d. per week up to 18 years of age, over 18 years and up to 21 years of age 5d. to 7Jd. per hour. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Beamsmen —Journeymen, Is. lfd. per hour; improvers, lOJd. per hour, for two years; apprentices, three years, 20s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week Iron and brass moulders (including plate-moulders), Is. IJd. per hour; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Fitters, &c, and Union Steamship Company, same conditions as Northern Industrial District Boilermakers, see Shipbuilding, &c. Pullers, . 9d. to lOd. per dozen; learners, 6d. to 7d. per dozen; Manawatu Freezing-works employees (Longburn) — Rates respectively; Pullers, 6d. to 7d. per dozen ; woolwashers, Is. per hour; painters, Is. per hour; trimmers, lljd. per hour ; doUymen, Is. to Is. IJd. per hour; skin - truckers, lOJd. per hour ; piepickers, 7s. per day; green hands, lOJd. per hour; wool-dryers, Is. per hour ; wool-wringers, Is. per hour ; pelt-washers, lljd. to Is. per 100; wool-pressing, Is. per bale ; fleshing, 2Jd. per dozen ; scudders, Is. per hour ; pelt-curer, Is. per hour ; trollyman, Is. per hour ; benchman, lOJd. per hour ; kidney-boy, if man 7s. per clay, if boy 12s. 6d. to 35s. per week (from 14 to 21 years of age); paunch-cutter, lljd. per hour ; foreman, Is. per hour ; wheels, lOJd. per hour; skins - examiner, Is. per hour ; cooling - room, lOJd. per hour ; grader, Is. per hour ; freezing-chamber hands, Is. 3d. per hour; loading-out, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per hour; firemen, 56s. per week; greaser, 56s. per week of 56 hours ; bone-mill, lljd. per hour; tallowshed, lOJd. ; offal-trolly, Is. per hour; night-watchman, 50s. per week ; general hands not enumerated, lOJd. per hour ; boys and youths, from 12s. to 35s. per week according to age. Hours of labour, 48 per week Iron, steel, and brass moulders (including plate-moulders), Is. 3d. per hour; man employed to work moulding-ma-chine, Is. IJd. per hour ; apprentices, six years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Boilerm kers, see Shipbuilding, &c. Range - workers, range fitters and polishers, Is. 3d. per hour; body-fitters and machinists, Is. Id. per hour ; boys, six years, 7s. 6d. to 36s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Fitters, &c, same conditions as Northern Industrial District Wool-sorters, Is. 4Jd. per hour; pullers, Is. 4Jd. per hour; pelt-classers, continuous employment Is. 4Jd. per hour, casual employment Is. IJd. per hour; improvers, Is. Id. per hour; pelt-curers, Is. 4jd. per hour; painters and trimmers, Is. Id. per hour; packers, Is. l|d. per hour; machine splitters, Is. 3d. per hour; chrome tanners, Is. 4Jd. per hour; chrome grainers and strikers, Is. 2d. per hour; shaving-machine hands on chrome and sheepskins, Is. 2d. per hour; hide unhairers and scudders, Is. OJd. per hour; rollers of crop, Is. IJd. per hour; rollers of split, Is. OJd. per hour; all others in fellmongery department, from Is. to Is. OJd. per hour; soap-workers, Is. per hour : machine fleshers, scudders, and hand fleshers, Is. Id. per hour; hide beamsmen and hide-fleshers Is. 2d. per hour ; other hands, lOJd. per hour; apprentices, three years, 20s. to 30s. per week; youths, 14 to 18 years 12s. to 21s. per week, 18 to 21 years 9d. per hour; all over 21 years, not less than Is. per hour. Hours of labour —Fellmongery department, winter 8, summer 9 per day; soap-workers, 48 per week. [Note. —See also Curriers.] Iron and brass moulders, Is. 3d. per hour ; apprentices, seven years; metalworkers' labourers, lid. per hour. Range fitters and polishers, Is. 3d. per hour; body - fitters and machinists, Is. Id. per hour; boys, five years, 7s. 6d. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 48 per week. Engineers (electrical), Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per hour; apprentices, five years, 5s. to 30s. per week. Hours of labour, 47 per week. Fitters, &c, and Union Steamship Company, same conditions as Northern Industrial District. Southland. —(Freezing - works agreement) Journeymen, 8s. per day of 8 hours.