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

Northern Industrial District. Wellington Industrial District. Canterbury Industrial District. Otago and Southland. Industrial District. Trades. 'ellmongering, &c. — contd. Hawke's Bay. — Slaughterhouse assistants —Boners, Is. 3d. per hour; cooling-floor and guthouse hands, and general labourers not otherwise specified, Is. per hour; meat-classer, Is. 3d. per hour (including Sundaywork). Fellmongery —Pullers, 4s. 6d. per hundred skins ; painters, fleshers, scudders, wool - driers, all doUymen, woolscourers, trimmers, wringers, and woolpressers, Is. Id. per hour ; pelt-classer, Is. 3d. per hour; general floor hands, other labourers, and piece or pie men, 1 IJd. per hour ; freezing - chamber hands, Is. 4Jd. per hour; fat-house hands, Is. per hour; manure hands, Is. per hour ; storeman, 55s. per week ; first hand, 35s. per week. Tinsmith —Cutting 1 lb. to 6 lb. tins, 4d. to 7d. per 100 ; making 1 lb. to 6 lb. tins, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. per 100 ; topping 1 lb. to 6 lb. tins, Is. 5d. to 2s. Id. per 100 ; jobbing-work, Is. Id. per hour. Preserving department —First assistant, Is. 2d. per hour; other hands, Is. per hour; night-watchman, 8s. per night of twelve hours. Engine-room and stokehole —Second engineer, 80s. per week ; third engineer, 70s. per week ; greasers, 8s. per day ; firemen, 9s. per day (including Sundays and holidays, if required) : general labourers, Is. per hour. Fitter, Is. 3d. per hour ; fitter's assistant, Is. OJd. per hour ; blacksmith, Is. 3d. per hour; blacksmith's assistant, Is. OJd. per hour; carpenters and coopers, Is. 3d. per hour; painters, Is. 3d. per hour ; carters and shunters, 48s. per week; general labourers not otherwise specified, Is. per hour; cook, 50s. per week of seven days; youths, 16s. to 32s. per week. Hours of labour, 8 per day i ! a Fish-curing Fish-curers, 45s. per week, labour, 50 per week Hours of Flax-miUing Feeders, Is. 3d. per hour; bench-loaders, Is. Id. ; washers, Is. Id.; head paddockers, Is. IJd. ; catchers, assistant paddockers, sorters, and shakers, Is. ; rouseabouts, lOJd. ; drivers, 46s. per week ; stripper - keepers, 2s. 6d. per *Working foremen, 50s. per week ; feeder (alone), 7s. per day ; feeder and stripper combined, 8s. per day; paddock hand, 8s. per day; water scutcher, 6s. 6d. per day; tier-up, taker-off, shaker-oil, and sorters, 6s. per day; * Award expires on 1st December, It H.2. V N \